Abstract

Five years ago, Graeme Oxby bumped into a guy he used to know, at a Jet garage in Doncaster. The man was wearing a gold jacket while pumping his Cadillac with 20 quid’s worth of unleaded. He told Graeme that he’d changed his name to Elvis Parkin and that he was "living the dream". This was the start of Graeme’s photographic journey into the world of Elvis impersonators and what would become his project, The Kings of England. He found the community was larger than he’d ever expected, mostly consisting of middle-aged men from working-class communities.