Three of my image/text pairings from ‘Lifting the Curtain’ have just been published in Hashtag Photography Magazine – an online photographic magazine. I found the publication when I noticed that RobTM a fellow OCA student had some photographs from his ‘A Forest’ series published in the last edition of the magazine. Rob was a fellow exhibitor at the [(6)] show.
The theme for issue 10 of the magazine was ‘Past, Present and Future’ and my ‘Lifting the Curtain’ work seemed to fit with this. I submitted the work a few weeks ago and the text for one of the images has now changed – I made the point when I submitted the work that the project was work in progress.
Click on image below to access the magazine:
It is good to have some work published, especially given my struggle to make the image text idea work.
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Catherine
September 1, 2014
Congratulations Keith.
Stephanie Dh.
September 1, 2014
Congratulations Keith!
jsumb
September 1, 2014
Well done, and despite your concerns it now has a life outside of your hands. Well done!
Carol Street
September 1, 2014
Congratulations Keith!
Keith Greenough
September 2, 2014
Thanks to all for the kind comments. John you are right about the photographs now having a life of their own. Good to hear from you Catherine. Hope your house move went well.
Amano - Photographic Studies
September 3, 2014
well deserved Keith … I find your output impressive
Keith Greenough
September 4, 2014
Thanks Amano. I’m flattered. Hope to see you at an OCA event soon.
Guy
September 5, 2014
There are many things that could be said about this photo spread and text, but perhaps the most important one is congratulations, well done.
We have discussed these pictures and the nature of open texts and the role of the reader in the presentation of photos in general before, but I must say seeing them in this context is like seeing them new. I think that they are interesting enough and strong enough to stand on their own and I’m beginning to think that the Booth text is not lifting the curtain at all but may be lowering it. A real connundrum.
Keith Greenough
September 6, 2014
Thanks Guy. I am interested in your thoughts of the text is lowering the curtain. In Booth’s terms this would mean perpetuating the myths surrounding East London. In his time the general view (from the West End) about East London was one of fear. It was portrayed in the popular press and fiction as a place of abject poverty with teeming masses set to break loose and revolt. Booth’s work was directed at establishing the facts. He found poverty and criminal elements but not on the scale depicted in the mythologised version. Mostly he found people struggling to make a living – at the docks, in the sweatshops, in the factories. He also found people pursuing educational, religious, cultural and leisure interests. My texts cover a wide gamut subjects dealing with social conditions and relations – working conditions, housing conditions, immigration, leisure and cultural interests, crime, poverty and so on. My original idea was that the texts would reveal something of the hidden history of the places shown in the photographs and in this sense ‘lift the curtain’ obscuring the history of the places. I now also feel that there is a resonance between the social issues highlighted by Booth and our modern day circumstances and so in a sense the work my be also be revealing the present day issues behind the veneer of redevelopment of East London.