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The hidden daytime dance revolution - and the man who captured it on camera
Rani Kaur, known as DJ Radical Sister, was one of the female pioneers of the daytimers scene
For decades, photographer Tim Smith's images of Bradford's British Asian "daytimers" dance scene remained largely unseen. Now, some of those shots are taking their place in a major Tate exhibition examining the creativity and rebellion that transformed 1990s Britain.
On a bright afternoon in Bradford, shoppers moved through the city centre carrying bags, going about their day.
Behind a nearby doorway, another side of Bradford was pulsing to a very different rhythm.
Tim Smith remembers stepping out of a small nightclub beneath the Alhambra theatre after spending hours photographing a "daytimers" disco.
"I walked out into this bright sunshine and there's all these people walking about with their shopping bags, completely oblivious to what was going on just the other side of this somewhat anonymous-looking doorway," he recalls.
More than three decades later, images Smith took inside that hidden world are making another unlikely journey, from Bradford's underground daytimers scene to the Tate Britain art gallery.
His photographs feature in new showcase The 90s: Art and Fashion, which opens on Thursday.
Curated by former Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, it brings together more than 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers to examine a decade of creativity and rebellion.
For Smith, who lived in Bradford for more than 40 years, the inclusion of his photos is also recognition that some of the cultural shifts reshaping 1990s Britain were happening far beyond London.