Larger Than Life, Twice As Ugly - Louie Jenkins

‘Smoking crack, drinking Jack and flying into rainbows’: Louie Jenkins’s photography zine is immortalising the lives of the misfits and the misunderstood.

“I like to think that people are drawn together – that weirdos are like magnets,” reveals Louie Jenkins, a photographer whose travels around the world have brought him face-to-face with plenty of such people. Bored of shooting bands in London, Jenkins took off in search of more stimulating surroundings to document with his Ricoh GR1V, culminating in his just-released zine, published with the help of London-based brand Real Gold, titled Larger than life and twice as ugly. Picking up his first camera at the tender age of 13, Jenkins’s shots have progressed from typical teenage snaps of wasted friends on skateboards to immortalising the global misfits who wouldn’t be given a second glance otherwise. A combination of alcohol and poor planning, Jenkins’s pictures are an homage to the “Freaks I met in America, Morocco and everywhere in-between”. As we score exclusive pictures from his limited edition zine, below, the photographer riffs on misfits, memories (or lack thereof) and living in the moment.