People and the places they have lived and the way they have lived gives me much thought, and gives me a sense I can identify with, as people do, and especially up North!
I did think of my own family at first, older people like my grandma/grandad, what have they done, what have they achieved, why when ever its someone’s birthday do we have parties, and my grandma makes a buffet, with pork pies, sausage rolls, everyone comes together, much like something in the war, a sense of togetherness!
Northern life, Traditions, communities that all come together, styles and places,
People who have issues and stories to tell, who are they, what are they all about? I find this somewhat interesting this is how Working men’s clubs came about, the idea of older men who have been going to the same pub/working men’s club for years, talking to, getting to know, who drink a pint of mild and smoke pipes, wearing flat caps! Working class people, as it was, People seemed to have made do with what they had, actually this gave me a sense of identity.
My inspiration was numerous photographers, and even TV programs and Films. Photographers included Shirley Baker, Don McCullin, Gary Winogrand, Humphrey Spender and many more. I found Northern films would have a massive impact on me in particular, ‘East is East’ and ‘Brassed Off’.
Working Men’s Clubs had a complex place, it’s a space connected yet distanced from working life on one side and family life on the other. Many photographers feel what they do is not quite work. Perhaps its because a photographer steps outside of things of peoples lives even when the aim is to connect with them.
Hopefully my images have a connection upon you, as they have to me, and are really all about the people I have spoke to and met. I am really interested in the Working Class, and feel it on a personal level, and feel it ever so more when I went into Working Men’s Clubs, which seemed to give me a sense of belonging. Photographing other people always involves a social bond – it can be more collaboration or even permission, this I found easy to come by.
To get the photographs I would want, I sat down and would talk about the situation of the Working Class and its history, also the present, I found while talking that people are very knowledgeable. I found out that the Working Class seem to be dying out, pretty rapidly. They are losing traditions and the younger members are not coming through or even seem to care.
I did think of my own family at first, older people like my grandma/grandad, what have they done, what have they achieved, why when ever its someone’s birthday do we have parties, and my grandma makes a buffet, with pork pies, sausage rolls, everyone comes together, much like something in the war, a sense of togetherness!
Northern life, Traditions, communities that all come together, styles and places,
People who have issues and stories to tell, who are they, what are they all about? I find this somewhat interesting this is how Working men’s clubs came about, the idea of older men who have been going to the same pub/working men’s club for years, talking to, getting to know, who drink a pint of mild and smoke pipes, wearing flat caps! Working class people, as it was, People seemed to have made do with what they had, actually this gave me a sense of identity.
My inspiration was numerous photographers, and even TV programs and Films. Photographers included Shirley Baker, Don McCullin, Gary Winogrand, Humphrey Spender and many more. I found Northern films would have a massive impact on me in particular, ‘East is East’ and ‘Brassed Off’.
Working Men’s Clubs had a complex place, it’s a space connected yet distanced from working life on one side and family life on the other. Many photographers feel what they do is not quite work. Perhaps its because a photographer steps outside of things of peoples lives even when the aim is to connect with them.
Hopefully my images have a connection upon you, as they have to me, and are really all about the people I have spoke to and met. I am really interested in the Working Class, and feel it on a personal level, and feel it ever so more when I went into Working Men’s Clubs, which seemed to give me a sense of belonging. Photographing other people always involves a social bond – it can be more collaboration or even permission, this I found easy to come by.
To get the photographs I would want, I sat down and would talk about the situation of the Working Class and its history, also the present, I found while talking that people are very knowledgeable. I found out that the Working Class seem to be dying out, pretty rapidly. They are losing traditions and the younger members are not coming through or even seem to care.
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