David says:
Tuberculosis Sanatorium
"In the Oslo Fjord there are many islands, each with a unique history. Two had sanatoriums for ‘scrofulous children’ – the special manifestation of tuberculosis in patients with a compromised or not fully established immune system, characterised by enlarged and degenerated lymph glands, especially in the neck, and often chronic skin inflammation.
I’ve chosen to take photos of the buildings which were used as a tuberculosis sanatorium. When I paddle out to this particular island, have lunch on the beach, and look at fossils in the layers of alum shale, I often think about these sick children, and wonder what their experienced of life on the island was like. They were separated from their families, but could still see the lights of the city when darkness fell. Part of the meditation is knowing that alum shale gives off radium - a result of uranium decay."
David says:
"I have lived at 88 Trowell Grove for nearly 18 years. It is the first house that I brought with my now husband. It is the house that I left on my way to get married. It is the home that I brought my 2 sons back to once I had given birth. This home is full of memories and through this challenge I seek to re-engage with them again in the quieter and perhaps the not so obvious places within my home."
David says:
"My attention was drawn to the detail of the battle in which Richard was killed at Bosworth Fields on 22 August 1485, which lies roughly between Leicester and Nottingham. Making him the last English king to die in battle on home soil and the first since Harold II was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
This got me thinking of the Raising of the Standard by Charles I in Nottingham, on 22nd August 1642, which was seen as the start of the Civil war. Some days earlier, Charles had failed to get hold of Leicester’s county magazine, to support his troops.
So my journeys passed by areas travelled by these kings and their troops, in two of the key points in English history; Richard and the passing of the Plantagenet line to the Tudors and the English Civil war.
The shots taken at nightfall made me reflect on what it would have been like to travel this landscape in the 15th and17th centuries, and made a very strong sense of relationship with this history."
David says:
"The Burlington Arcade is a covered shopping arcade in London that runs behind Bond Street from Piccadilly through to Burlington Gardens. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European shopping gallery and the modern shopping centre. The Burlington Arcade was built "for the sale of jewellery and fancy articles of fashionable demand, for the gratification of the public".
The arcade was built to the order of Lord George Cavendish, younger brother of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who had inherited the adjacent Burlington House, on what had been the side garden of the house and was reputedly to prevent passers-by throwing oyster shells and other rubbish over the wall of his home. The Arcade opened in 1819. It consisted of a single straight top-lit walkway lined with seventy-two small two storey units."
David says:
"Liverpool means an incredible amount to me - it where my family lived for hundreds of years (mostly Bebington in the Wirral) and all the stories I have from my family are from there. It is a city with so much history - good and bad. A city of extremes in every way. A beautiful city, a broken city - a city with soul in abundance. A friendly city, a city of great humour. Most of its history, is caught up in its docks - the incredible Stanley Dock - the Tobacco warehouse (RHS) is the largest brick building in the world. Otherwise...I love the playful sense of humour in Liverpool - and my other three images reflect the dogged black comedy of Liverpool. The living history embodied in the people who live there...love you Liverpool."
David says:
"In September 1836 I was becalmed in a small cutter off Point Piquet for a day and a half; from thence they [the whales] were to be seen in all directions, sporting over a large expanse as smooth as a mirror. What success would have attended the well directed efforts of two or three whalers' stations on the heights may be supposed. "
David says:
"The first Saturday of May each year there is a procession of the patron saint of Naples, San Gennaro. In this religious festival and pagan at the same time are carried on the shoulders for a long journey between two wings of crowd busts of twenty statues of saints who parade in honor of San Gennaro, which was cheered loudly by the people. In these photos I wanted to show the work of these men devotees of the saint who clean and arrange the statues for the procession."
David says:
Faces of the Revolution "On 25 April 1974 there was a revolution in Portugal establishing democracy and freedom. Almost no shots were fired, and flowers, mostly carnations, were offered by civilians to military, who put them into the muzzles of their rifles. All over the country, 25 April day is celebrated ever since. In Lisbon, my town, people traditionally walk down a wide street named Liberdade Avenue. There, one can see young people going, side by side, with people who were young by the time of the revolution. There are no boring speeches (lovely!), but lots of flags and banners, a large part of them homemade. And carnations! People hold them, put them on their clothes and on their hair.
These photos are just faces. Faces from random people to whom I asked for a photo, and accepted it. They are open faces from freedom and democracy. We need them. With their carnations."
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