Back in the room

I’ve not been in a nightclub for years, but these photos from 20 years of Manchester’s Warehouse Project took me straight back there — the lights, the sweat, the faces appearing out of the dark, that strange feeling of it being three in the morning and nowhere else existing.

It’s easy to photograph a DJ. Much harder to photograph what a night actually felt like.

These do.

itsnicethat.com20 years, a bunch of photographers, one very sweaty archive: how to shoot The Warehouse ProjectAs WHP launches a new archive documenting two decades of dance music, Gary Brown, Harriet Bols and Jody Hartley share the process behind photographing its crowds, artists and fleeting moments.