Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/franklyn-rodgers-17466" aria-label="More by Franklyn Rodgers" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Franklyn Rodgers</a>
Give it up Vox
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013, accessioned 2018


<p>These four photographs by Franklyn Rodgers were taken at the Vox Club in Vauxhall, South London in the early 1990s. The Vox series was commissioned by Autograph ABP, London. For several years Rodgers attended this underground club every Sunday and documented the people who frequented it, capturing the dancing, the fashion and the energy of the place. Rodgers has since discussed it a ‘special space’ where the music ‘took over and elevated’ people, but where there was also space to be found where one could read or even play chess (interview recorded 8 December 2009 at Rivington Place, London, http://vimeo.com/38487043). Rodgers attended the club with his friends and fully participated in the club’s life as well as photographing it. He has described how this gives his photographs their particular point of view: ‘I thought because I’m in there, I’m living it, I can contribute a different perspective. So in a lot of the pictures that you see, I’m there dancing as well. I’m not on the outside looking in.’ (Ibid.)</p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
21 November 2024 – 5 May 2025
2025-05-05
21 November 2024 – 5 May 2025
2025-05-05
2024-11-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2024-11-21
The 80s: Photographing Britain
Exhibition
Give it up from the Vox series
image: 243 × 360 mm
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013, accessioned 2018


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<p>These four photographs by Franklyn Rodgers were taken at the Vox Club in Vauxhall, South London in the early 1990s. The Vox series was commissioned by Autograph ABP, London. For several years Rodgers attended this underground club every Sunday and documented the people who frequented it, capturing the dancing, the fashion and the energy of the place. Rodgers has since discussed it a ‘special space’ where the music ‘took over and elevated’ people, but where there was also space to be found where one could read or even play chess (interview recorded 8 December 2009 at Rivington Place, London, <a href="http://vimeo.com/38487043">http://vimeo.com/38487043</a>). Rodgers attended the club with his friends and fully participated in the club’s life as well as photographing it. He has described how this gives his photographs their particular point of view: ‘I thought because I’m in there, I’m living it, I can contribute a different perspective. So in a lot of the pictures that you see, I’m there dancing as well. I’m not on the outside looking in.’ (Ibid.)</p>
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<b>Further reading</b>
<br/>Maria Amidu, <i>Franklyn Rodgers: The Philosophy of Strangers</i>, London 2007.</p>
<p>Helen Delaney<br/>November 2013</p>
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