The finalists in a major new art contest tackle these difficult issues in arresting style.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/caught-on-camera-britains-best-crime-photography-1696256.html
What Is Crime? is at 198 Gallery, 198 Railton Road, Brixton, London SE24 0JT. 9th July - 28th August
Two of my images were selected for exhibition.
1. Four Shades of Blue in Sixty Eight Shut Down Shops: As the ‘credit-crunch’ turns into recession nowhere are the visual signs more obvious than our High Street shops. The rose-tinted notion of Britain as a ‘nation of shopkeepers’ is fading into the past as the High Street becomes an empty melancholic ‘non-place’ - everywhere and yet no-where. As The Banks are cast in the role of villain it is their so-called ‘fat-cat’ CEOs who still take early retirement on the back of obscene golden handshakes.
2. Sunday 9.58pm: In the post-modern urban landscape multi-storey car parks exist as ambivalent non-spaces. As darkness falls the concrete pillars, railings and ramps take on a new significance, illuminated by the eerie glow of fluorescence. That which often goes unnoticed is made visible. You may be in the heart of a city, surrounded by thousands of people but while the city sleeps our dreams and fears take on an ominous immediacy. The threat of violence weighs heavy on our subconscious, fed by the culture of fear that we live in.
