On May 31st I’ll be at the Bluecoat in Liverpool taking part in a photobook fair as part of the Look festival.
The perils, pitfalls and pleasures of competitive leek growing.
George Hepple, a retired blacksmith from Haltwhistle, as featured in Living Like This (Meadows, Daniel. 1975. Living Like This: Around Britain in the Seventies . London: Arrow.) .
The Daniel Meadows Archive is in the Library of Birmingham.
I guess there are two phases to my career as a photographer: The first phase was as an educator, teaching part time at several colleges in the north-west, ending up as a full-time programme manager at Hugh Baird college in Bootle.
“Pleasureland”: photographs of Southport fair out of season shot on 5×4 in black and white.
“Housing Estates”: photographs divided into four discrete sets that showed an evolution of approach to the same subject. Set1: 35mm graphic, contrasty black and white images. Set2: 35mm grey and understated black and white. Set3: 5×4 black and white and Set4: 5×4 colour.
“Demolition Sites”: 5×4 black and white photographs of areas of ground either where buildings were being demolished or where buildings had been demolished some time in the past.
Following from the release of last week’s movie and book, from Bancroft Shed by Daniel Meadows, this week is a movie shot a year earlier, 1975 in Burnley. Still weaving, but perhaps the language of weaving in many ways.