Chicksand Football Team
Taken thirty years ago these photographs celebrate the exhilaration which children can derive from a street and a football. The little girl was clearly the team boss!
Footballers on the Chicksand Estate. Spitalfields, London 1982
Footballers on the Chicksand Estate. Spitalfields, London 1982
Waiting for a Customer
Waiting for a customer. Sadly this warehouse has, like many others, been pulled down and replaced with “luxury housing”. I used to love rooting around in the many warehouses on Cheshire street: full of characters and bargains; a second hand dreamland.
Stall holder in warehouse. Cheshire Street 2005
Sam outside his second hand shop. Cheshire Street, London 1984
Sam was my former neighbour. A jewish refugee from Poland. A polite man who would like to gently complain about the changeing world around him.
Wasted
I have always been fascinated with the way people dispose of their waste whilst walking the streets. Given the lack of waste bins and the unwillingness among some people to recycle their waste, organic urban landfill sites spring up which have their own conceptual messages. Here are a couple.
Litter, Spitalfields 2005
Sample Sale. Spitalfields 2005
Hands On
Painted hands, Near Hastings 2007
Hand. Sir John Cass School. London 2007
Hand. Hastings 2007
Hand. Sir John Cass School. London 2007
Hand. Sir John Cass School. London 2007
Hands at the lightbox gallery. Woking 2005
Four Cranes
This photomontage combines a photograph taken from the balcony of my flat of Canary Wharf (2007) with a photograph taken in Cambodia in 2009. The slanted roof of the Cambodian home resonates with the design of the top of the Canary Wharf tower; this emphasises the gap between the rich and the poor but the similarity in architecture also suggests a common bond between humanity.
Four Cranes. Photomontage 2010
The four cranes represent a barrier seperating the two worlds. They also secure the wealth for the rich world acting like stock brokers determined to maintain an economic status quo. The moon is a kind of arbiter which suggests the absurdity of the way resources have been devisively acrued by the rich world; both places are touched by the magnificence of the moon yet it appears it is only the foreground that appreciates the worlds natural beauty and the resources that abound.
