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Large folded sheet of text alongside captioned photographs by Paul Trevor. Published by Tower Hamlets Trades Council, 2 Cable Street, London E1. Price 15p This picture story is a reproduction of pages 7, 8, & 9 of Camerawork magazine issue No.13 on 'Photography in the Community'. The pictures in this broadsheet are available as an exhibition. Paul Trevor, a member of Exit and the Half Moon Photography Workshop, talked to Camerawork. How did this set of pictures come about? Well, these pictures have been drawn from a much larger body of work that I've been doing for over five years now in my neighbourhood. All these photos were taken last year. They're not typical of my pictures as a whole but then, as most people know, last year wasn't a typical year in the Brick Lane area. Most of these pictures illustrated a recent book called Blood on the Streets* and I'm hoping that publishing them in Camerawork will draw people's attention to that book, which I very much want people to read. Do you regard yourself as a community photographer? No, I don't regard myself as somebody else's label. Let me just say that the pictures that I take in my neighbourhood are for myself. It's a personal thing. If they're of interest to other people, that's fine. If they're of use to the local community that's even better. Like I said, it's a personal thing - a sort of visual diary. After a while a picture of the neighbourhood automatically begins to emerge, but I wouldn't claim that represents the community. If anything I suppose the pictures are about myself. So I don't know makes me a community photographer or not, and it doesn't matter to me in the least. I'm not primarily interested in photography. I'm much more interested in people - you know taking pictures is simple, relationships aren't. And looking back on all my photographs I can see that they're about relationships. That's why I said that I don't think this set of pictures is very typical of what I've been doing. Do you think that photographs can be used to improve race relations? It depends who is using them. That's why it's important for me to have control over how my pictures are used.----Captioned photographs include: 16th July. Anti-racists sit down in Brick Lane to prevent the National Front from selling their literature. 17th July. Bengalee criticism of police racism in the East End culminates in a mass sit down protest outside Bethnal Green police station. Growing up with violence. By June Brick Lane becomes the most heavily policed area in Britain outside Ulster. 29th September. The National Front move their headquarters from Twickenham, Surrey to Shoreditch, alongside the Bengalee community. Martin Webster addresses his followers. In 1978 we found that the only way we could be effective against racist attacks and intimidation was to organize ourselves. Since the murder of Altab Ali we have taken up wider issues that affect our lives. We have now become more aware of institutionalized racism. As citizens of Tower Hamlets we see the need to be constructively involved in every aspect of the community. Increasingly we are fighting institutionalized racism in order to achieve equality, as part of our human rights in this country. Ware here to stay. Julal Uddin- Bangladesh Youth Movement for Equal Rights. April 1979. It is not a coincidence that the issues of race, poverty and the urban crisis are so closely related. These major social issues arise from the structural features of our society. Racism, like poverty, is a structural question. It will not simply go away if we are nice to one another. If we really want to be rid of racism we have to be prepareed to deal with the matter at it's roots, and that means changing the deep strcuture of inequalities that persist in our society. Paul Trevor, April 1979. 21 x 30 cm folded, 42 x 60 cm opened out. Few creases and light wear to edges and fold, else fine. N° de ref. del artículo 000929
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