Syd Shelton (b. Pontefract, England) is a photographer who is best known for documenting one of the most intriguing and contradictory political periods in British post-war history.

Shelton’s photographs document a country divided across race, class and gender. They expose the ferocity of cultural differences being hammered out on Britain's streets through the late 1970s, at a time when racist skinheads danced to Jamaican ska, punks embraced reggae and Black kids reached out to punk.