'Facing Britain', British documentary photography since the 1960s
Museum Goch, Germany
27 September – 8 November 2020
Curated by Ralph Goertz and organised by the Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie, Facing Britain brings together British documentary photographers in a large overview exhibition.
Rob Bremner
John Bulmer
Thom Corbishley
Robert Darch
Anna Fox
Ken Grant
Judy Greenway
Mohamed Hassan
Paul Hill
David Hurn
Barry Lewis
Markéta Luskačová
Kirsty Mackay
Niall McDiarmid
Daniel Meadows
Peter Mitchell
Tish Murtha
John Myers
Jon Nicholson
Kevin O’Farrell
Martin Parr
Mark Pinder
Paul Reas
Simon Roberts
Syd Shelton
Dave Sinclair
Homer Sykes
Jon Tonks
'Facing Britain', British documentary photography since the 1960s
Museum Goch, Germany
27 September – 8 November 2020
Daniel Meadows interviewed by Amy Davies for Amateur Photographer
Ben Smith’s podcast NOW LIVE: #116 Daniel Meadows
Boot-boys are 'Big Picture' in the Observer.
Polyfoto
r/t: 2 min, 23 sec.
In the UK when we ask: "Where are you from?" we want to know a lot more than just your place of birth.
This story is about the England I come from.
Book. 1981. Camera Lucida, reflections on photography. After years of dispassionate analysis Barthes comes across a photograph of his mother as a child, the "winter garden photograph". He lets his feelings in and suddenly the ideas start bouncing off the page: "I had discovered this photograph by moving back through Time? I worked back through a life, not my own, but the life of someone I love. Starting from her latest image, taken the summer before her death (so tired, so noble, sitting in front of the door of our house, surrounded by my friends), I arrived, traversing three quarters of a century, at the image of a child: I stare intensely at the Sovereign Good of childhood, of the mother, of the mother-as-child. Of course I was then losing her twice over, in her final fatigue and in her first photograph, for me the last; but it was also at this moment that everything turned around and I discovered her as unto herself. "