Tim Smith's Bradford Daytimers Photographs Head to Tate Britain's 'The 90s: Art and Fashion'

Key facts

• Tim Smith's photographs of Bradford's daytimers scene feature in The 90s: Art and Fashion at Tate Britain, opening Thursday.
• The exhibition is curated by former Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful and includes more than 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers.
• Smith lived in Bradford for more than 40 years and arrived in the mid-1980s after studying photography in Newport.
• He documented South Asian communities via the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit, photographing work, religious gatherings, weddings and social life.
• Daytimers gigs were afternoon club events, cheap to hire while nightclubs stood empty, playing music fusing Punjabi and South Asian traditions with British sounds.
• Rani Kaur, known as DJ Radical Sister, was a pioneering woman of the scene and appears in one of Smith's best-known images at the DJ decks.
• Much of Smith's work stayed out of public view because publishing could expose attendees; some images were later shown at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum.
• Smith believes the daytimers helped lay the foundations for the British Asian culture scene that followed.