All Boxed Up With Nowhere To Go
Moving and collapsed cardboard box. Spitalfields, London 2012
Used cardboard boxes. Brick Lane, London 1985
Ben Slow Was Here
Ben Slow says “I paint what I see – in the urban environment, in the media and in the people of the city that I love”. Its as if everywhere his brush has visited is turned into an urban art gallery; his work breathes a new dynamic into the street and is an installation that renders many art galleries redundant. Once he has finished a piece the dialogue begins. The work has the gravity of a great operatic set or propaganda for equity in urban lives increasingly battered by consumerism. We will be working with Ben as part of our fourth film about the East End. He will be painting in and around petticoat lane. Watch this space.
Police officers in Hanbury Street. London 2012
Women in Hanbury Street. London 2012
Women in Hanbury Street. London 2012
Man in Hanbury Street. London 1986
The Banner of Globalisation
A lot of my photomontage work examines the concept of globilisation. The word has attracted much currency over the past 10 years. I remember being bemused when I first heard it used in connection with the relationship between rich and poor countries. It has many ways of being used; I believe it is one of those words that conspires to give a favourable gloss to something which is fundamentally unjust. Some would have us believe that it is the process whereby wealth trickles through to poor countries from rich countries. In reality I think globalisation involves the suppression of millions in pursuit of the needs of ‘free markets’. My photographic work around globalisation discusses and attempts to expose this free market suppression masquerading under the banner of globalisation. We do live in a ‘global village’ but it is compounded by inequalities designed to suppress organised labour and basic freedoms.
'Across the River'. Photomontage 2012
Headgear
Man with head luggage. Chittagong, Bangladesh 2010
Dhaka street. Bangladesh 2010
Walking Down Brick Lane
Lady walking down Brick Lane. London 1985
Man walking down Brick Lane. London 1985
Young girl walking down Brick Lane. London 1985
Two men walking down Brick Lane. London 1983
