UKG, by photographer Ewen Spencer, documents the early days of the UK Garage phenomenon. The project began in the summer of 1998 when Spencer was working as a nightlife photographer for Sleazenation magazine. The forty photographs in the book are accompanied by texts from Mike Skinner of The Streets and photographer Jason Evans. The term 'Garage' was originally used to describe an eclectic type of dance music that emerged from New York's Paradise Garage nightclub in the mid-1970s; UK Garage shared an emphasis on dancing but drew its influences from RnB, swing and ragga/dancehall. Spencer's photographs capture the gesture, nuance and details of individuals out at Garage nights—a departure from the 'straight-up' style typical of i-D and other style magazines at the time. Documenting fashion, flirtation, euphoria and the camaraderie of the dancefloor, the work is an intimate insider's record of a distinctly British youth subculture at the moment of its emergence.