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A Wonderfully Crass Look at the Party People of London's Shoreditch 'Hood

Street photographer Dougie Wallace delves into the "total f------ chaos" of the popular British nightlife spot.

If anyone has a knack for capturing the pocked, outrageous underbelly of British street life, it's Dougie Wallace. The below photo from his series on Blackpool's stag-and-hen parties is comparably tame, as it features no vomit, buttcrack, or wang (that last one's NSFW):

Well, the 30-something Londoner has a new book out, "Shoreditch Wild Life," and it looks every bit as fantastic as his previous voyeuristic collection of the boozy, urine-stained corners of U.K. society. The new tome chronicles Wallace's life in Shoreditch, a London neighborhood he calls "an ideal training ground to practice my photography for the last 15 years." Here's a nice description of the book from author Michael Smith: