Working Lives – Decrease Marsh: Final Saturday, 14th August 2024, was an uncommon day for me, which I’ll maybe write extra about in a later publish. However I’d completed photographing a protest just a little after 1pm, quite sooner than I’d anticipated and sat down on the riverside path by the Thames at 9 Elms to eat my sandwiches and questioned what to do subsequent.
Certainly one of a number of issues that got here to thoughts was the Working Lives Retrospective Pictures Exhibition, organised by Worldwide Arts and Pedalling Arts, “highlighting factors of connection within the working lives of individuals in Britain and Ukraine from the Nineteen Sixties to the Eighties” with a set of images “from London and Kyiv and Odesa offering recent insights into road and theatre tradition in each cities.”
The present continues till till subsequent Sunday, September twenty second and the Road Pictures part of that is positioned in a collection of images in store home windows alongside Decrease Marsh, a road near Waterloo Station. It and options photos taken in Decrease Marsh within the Seventies and Eighties in addition to some from Ukraine. The London footage embrace three by me, and others by Paul Carter, Jini Rawlings and from unnamed photographers within the Lambeth Archives.
There’s a map on the net web site you may obtain (or decide up on the Walrus) with a listing of the names of the 27 outlets and places of work participating, largely with one {photograph}, however a number of with two. And the image on the backside of the net web page is one in all mine.
Just a few months in the past an previous pal who lives a number of streets away from Decrease Marsh had emailed me asking if I had taken any footage on Decrease Marsh, a busy market road again then. I did a search of my albums on Flickr and located a number of footage, primarily from 1992 and despatched hyperlinks to the exhibition organiser. Three have been chosen for the present and I equipped information for A1 prints to be made.
I’ve been out of London for a while after which busy with different issues so I hadn’t discovered time to see the present. And till I walked onto Decrease Marsh I hadn’t realised that one in all my footage was getting used because the poster picture.
One other a part of the present was that the theatre images have been to be screened on big screens on a van parked on the street exterior Cubana on the east finish of the road the place most individuals enter it from 2.30pm – 10.30pm on chosen days. Strolling in direction of it from the west in Saturday’s vivid daylight the photographs have been nearly invisible, however all of the sudden I discovered my poster image showing. I walked to the shaded facet and the whole lot turned clear.
The identical image of a person carrying a rolled up carpet (and a strolling stick) on the road additionally seems on a properly printed postcards produced for the present which you should buy on the Walrus.
I discovered the present an fascinating method to have a look at images. It’s now a vibrant road with cafés and so forth, quite totally different from the previous market, however fascinating to stroll alongside and seek for the photographs. And being spaced out as they’re attracts your consideration to each image and provides you extra time to consider it than in a run on a gallery wall. At one or two locations I felt just a little uncomfortable once I needed to peer at them over folks sitting at cafe tables, however I don’t assume they minded.
You can too see all sq. cropped variations of all the road photos on the net web site accompanied by brief audio clips of reminiscences from English or Ukranian locals. You can too play these in your cellphone on the road from QR codes on the image captions.
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Tags: Britain, exhibition, Worldwide Arts, Jini Rawlings, Kyiv, Lambeth, Lambeth Archives, London, London Pictures, Decrease Marsh, Odesa, Paul Carter, Pedalling Arts, peter Marshall, road images, theatre images, Ukraine, Waterloo, Working Lives
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