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Photography // New exhibition featuring Tom Hunter celebrates 90′s festival spirit and life on the road
A new exhibition at London College of Communication, featuring photographers Tom Hunter and Dave Fawcett, and filmmaker Andrew Gaston, conjures the countercultural spirit of young travelling communities in the 1990’s.
Opening on Wednesday 5 February 2014, Life on the Road captures a remarkable moment in time, in the 1990s, when young people travelled around Europe in a variety of vehicles adapted as homes, forming transitory communities based around festivals, music and a shared rejection of the increasingly consumerist values of Western society.
Travelling in decommissioned buses and vans, these new explorers constructed a vision of a kind of utopia, which is now embedded in our collective memory of the 1990s. From Hunter’s documentary of everyday life on the road, to Fawcett’s meticulous record of traveller buses, and Gaston’s elegiac footage of parties, this exhibition, which is an integral part of LCC Green Week, is both celebration and memorial.
‘Life on the Road’ Opening Party: Wednesday 5 February 2014 6–9pm Exhibition Open: 6 – 26 February 2014, 10am – 5pm (closed Sunday) Venue: Upper Street Gallery, London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle SE1 6SB
At the Opening Party Tom Hunter will be signing copies of his book Le Crowbar published by Here Press. Copies of Dave Fawcett’s publication Traveller Homes will also be on sale.
Win a copy of Tom Hunter’s book Le Crowbar and more in our Instagram competition starting on Friday. Follow @LCCLondon for more details.
Borrowed a Go-Pro Hero 3 from uni. So, having got it paired to my tablet, I stuck the Go-Pro on a very long pole and stuck it up in the air. Looking on the tablet, could see how to twizzle it about to frame up.
This last month, there has been another spate of photographers getting interfered with by the police. It is not only thuggery on their part but also their ingorance about the law. I had prepared this humungus advice page wot coverers it.
In spite of assorted agreements with the police, officers continue to be obstructive to photogaphy in the street.
Although the trend of photographers getting hassle go’s up and down over time, It has always been thus!
The object of this page is to strengthen your knowledge regarding issues surrounding photography, both in ‘actions’ and subjects in a public place. In situations whether your photographing an action / demonstration, or people and buildings in the High Street …. it has become quite problematic and increasingly so. I think 4 main issues have a bearing here.
Policeman and assorted officers don’t want to be photographed, it might show some wrong-doing. People involved in direct action, a photograph might be evidence against an individual breaking the law. The notion that some believe people have a right of privacy in a public place. The threat of terrorism and a photographer might be conducting ‘hostile reconissence’.
An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ......
I am based in Nottingham UK
tash @ riseup.net
Tashs’ Festival, Travellin’ and Environmental
Photographic Archives.
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling
people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe
as ‘New Age Travellers’.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people
engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and
to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years,
extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights
events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice
Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for
me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy
International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads:
“Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising
awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic
practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am currently involved with the setting up and administration of Nottinghamshire
Indymedia. An ‘open-publishing’ system which is part of an international
‘alternative media’ network.
“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock!!"
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949
"Civilization will not attain to its perfection,
until the last stone from the last church,
falls on the last priest."
Emile Zola
"....I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you're out there and you're not cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin'- there's more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now..."
Frank Zappa
