Edition. David Linuesa
Photografphy. David Arribas
Music. Antonio Freitas, Viny
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Doc martens. Created by the german doctor Klaus Martens. These boots have been very used by the punk and skinhead movement. During the 70's groups such as Sex Pistols and The Clash introduced the punk aesthetic as a symbol of identity.


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Singer of the punk group Ansia Viva

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Father and daughter posing. I wanted to tell stories of punkis with children starting from young people in punk philosophy.

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1312 tattoo indicating the position of the letters “ACAB” in the alphabet. The 4Skins group (1979-1984) made their theme “ACAB” (“All Cops Are Bastards”) very popular song. With a skin head aesthetic, their lyrics showed daily life topics, social problems and violence in the UK.

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Rafa. Bass guitarist of punk band 

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Bullets, chains, beer opener and pocket knife are part of punk clothing.

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Practice session of the music band. Punk music is one of the most common ways of conveying messages about total disagreement with society, anti-fascists and anti-capitalists ideas with great violent content.


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Tattoo session.

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Vini has been a musician all his life. After some problems with drugs, he lost his twin brother, also punk, due to an heroin overdose. During the 80's the heroine resulted in the death of a generation of punkies. The slogan "Live fast and die young" became very important in the young punk life. Currently Vini is a tattoo artist and guitarist in his punk band.

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Mery ( the ax girl ) was a singer for the group Grippers. She maintaining a deeply rooted punk philosophy, currently she stopped living in the city, leaving the stereotypes of consumption and aesthetics to change to an independent life in a rural area of self-management according to her ideas.

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The “Pogo” is a hard dance in which members are pushed and beaten during concerts of punk and hardcore music. Concerts held at festivals and self-managed social centres. The" Okupa" movement is closely linked to punk philosophy , although not all occupies are punks.

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Symbol of the punk band Andanada 7

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Festival to raise funds for Anarchist Prisoners

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Women are very active members of the punk scene. "China" has been punk since she was very young. She is currently married with her punk boyfriend.

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Kaos, the dog of one of the members of the group Ansia Viva in the group's rehearsal place.

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Speed, among other substances, is one of the drugs used at events such as concerts, music rehearsals as in the pic. Consumed by nasal route, speed is composed of amphetamine sulfate, sometimes amphetamine is adulterated with other substances or medications. It was created by Dr. L. Edeleano in 1887 with medical purpose to induce alterations in the central nervous system and as a bronchodilator. Later this medication was released as a potent drug causing euphoria and great addiction. 

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Tribute concert to Fernan. He killed himself several years ago.

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 The daughter of one of the members of the group observes during the rehearsal at the EKO Occupied Social Centre.  The Occupy movement was an international socio-political movement that manifested its total opposition to the social and economic inequality closely linked to the punk movement.


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Rotten and Wattie ( dead in 2017 ) are two big boxer. Their names are in honor to Wattie Buchan singer of the group The Exploited and  Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Sex Pistols´s singer.

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Housework.
The antifascist movement have a great important inside the movement.

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The crest began to be popular in 1979. With origins in the Mohican Indians, the hair is raised with soap and other products.

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Love and violence.

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“D.I.Y.”  Do it yourself. It is another slogan of anti-capitalist punk philosophy. It proposes to replace the purchase of articles of necessity by the self-management and own manufacture. Everything outside the established system. In this sense, the jacket, fundamental pledge of punk clothing, is customized showing the personality of its owner.

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Anarchy is a concept that comes from the anciente Greek á¼€ναρχá½·α (anarchía), derived from the word ἄναρχος (ánarchos) and which mentions the absence of public power. Related to the movement that proposes the existence of a social organization that is not hierarchical comes into conflict with the control exercised by a state. For the punk attitude it is one of the bases that keeps it alive to maintain this disobedience.  "Punk´s not dead"



Public Story
Revolt. The raw expression of revenge / Ansia
Copyright David Arribas 2024
Date of Work Dec 1969 - Dec 1969
Updated Jun 2021
Location Spain, Madrid
Topics Adolescence, adolescent, anarchist, antifascist, attitude, Black and White, Celebrations, disorderdly, Documentary, Drug Abuse, Dying/Death, Editorial, Europe, Family, Fear, Gangs, hardcore, ignite, International, Lifestyle, mohicans, Music, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics, Portraiture, punk, punk music, punky, Racism, Sex Pistols, Sorrow, Spain, Street, tinder, UK, United Kingdom, Urban Tribe, Violence, Yearning
Revolt. The raw expression of revenge.

The first beginnings of the punk movement can be found on late 1960’s in Detroit and New York. In 1976 in England it began as a philosophy and a sociocultural movement with great intensity. Punk was born as a consequence of the socioeconomic crisis of the western countries that left the great majority of the population in difficult conditions of exclusion, unemployment and political and social instability.
In Spain this movement was born later, in 1977, after the Franco dictatorship as an escape of accumulated anger, and an anti-fascist and anti-capitalist character. Creating a subculture contrary to the established system where the written medium as the fanzine and songs with lyrics clearly against the system were means of diffusion of the movement.
When I look back and try to remember my adolescence I cannot do it without listening punk or rock music on the background because I grew up on that ambient so it’s a familiar topic to me. For this reason I decided to create a photographic project about the way of life of a punky group. I talked to a punk band about the "Ansia " project and my interest on giving a documentary evidence of the meaning of "being punky" with a view from inside the movement.

I went to their concerts, rehearses and their meetings. I created a confident atmosphere that allowed me turning into something similar to another member of the group. In addition, I was interested on finding adult punkies who had lived and would live forever on the punk's philosophy. 
I wanted to show their day by day, their life (their couples, their sons and daughters, drugs, music…. show his essence) and, over all, their disagreement with the society, sometimes very close to the hate.

Photography and text                David  Arribas
Text, edition and Translation   Clara Muro



Ansia . La cruda expresión de la venganza. 

Los primeros comienzos del movimiento punk se pueden encontrar a finales de los años 60 en Detroit y Nueva York. En 1976 en Inglaterra se originó una filosofía y corriente sociocultural de gran intensidad como consecuencia de la crisis socioeconómica de los países occidentales que dejó a la gran mayoría de la población en difíciles condiciones de exclusión, desempleo e inestabilidad política y social.
En España este movimiento nació poco más tarde, en 1977, después de la dictadura franquista, como una válvula de escape a la ira acumulada, con un fuerte carácter antifascista y anticapitalista. El objetivo era crear una subcultura contraria al sistema establecido donde el medio escrito como el fanzine y las canciones con letras claramente en contra del sistema fueran medios de difusión del movimiento.
Cuando miro hacia atrás y trato de recordar mi adolescencia, no puedo hacerlo sin escuchar música punk o rock de fondo. Crecí en ese ambiente. Por esta razón decidí crear un proyecto fotográfico sobre la forma de vida de un grupo punky. Hablé con una banda sobre el proyecto "Ansia" y mi interés por dar una prueba documental del significado de "ser punky" con una visión desde dentro del movimiento.

Fui a sus conciertos, ensayos y reuniones. Creé una atmósfera de confianza que me permitió convertirme en otro miembro del grupo. Me interesaba igualmente encontrar adultos que habían vivido y vivirían para siempre en la filosofía del punk. Quería mostrar su día a día, sus relaciones interpersonales, su familia, su relación con las drogas que han hecho desaparecer a dos generaciones de punkis bajo el lema de “ vive rápido y muere joven “, su estética personalizada “Do it yourself” (o DIY, “hazlo tú mismo” ), la música como forma de expresar su ideología anarquista, etc., en definitiva mostrar su esencia y, sobre todo, su desacuerdo con la sociedad en la que viven, a veces muy cercana al odio.

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