Today in Flickr discoveries: photos by former London schoolteacher George Plemper, who taught science in working-class south London from 1973 to 1978. His pictures of Riverside School and its students—rarely shown, except for an exhibition in 1979—is a gripping body of work, not only for Plemper's considerable skill but also because many of his young subjects had such refined senses of style. Case in point: the young man shown here, a refugee from the Nigerian/Biafran civil war of the late sixties. Hey, if you're going to wear velour and fur trim, wear it proud.

[The Guardian]