Emily Stein's photos of teenagers going nuts in mosh pits

Date
14 July 2014

I hope everyone got involved in a mosh pit at some stage during their adolescence, it’s a rite of passage as important as – if not moreso than – your first kiss. Fun and life-changing as it is, cool it is not, and so this strange, sweaty, somewhat folkloric activity tends not to be photographed in favour of adult versions of something similar at grown-up festivals and the like. Good on Emily Stein, then, for having the balls to just dive in with those sweating teenagers and take photos of them at their wildest and most passionate. Some photos are close-up enough that you can even see their faint beginnings of wispy facial hair. Wonderful stuff.

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Emily Stein: Saturday’s Mosh

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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