{"id":3146,"date":"2013-11-04T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2013-11-01T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:29:26","slug":"moral-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"Moral Hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian<\/em> at the end of last month published an interesting audio slideshow with Stephen McLaren<\/em> talking about his five-year project documenting the City of London after the 2008 financial crisis, Moral Hazard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McLaren is one of the most interesting to emerge in a new generation of ‘street photographers’, though the genre is perhaps largely meaninless, and I think it belittles his work to call him a street photographer, with so much that is now included under that title being puerile graphic observations.<\/p>\n

What distinguishes Mclaren’s work – not that it lacks graphic interest, is an underlying seriousness of purpose. It is (as one photographer whose opinion I valued once said about my own work) “about something.” Behind the often amusing or even startling sights he records there is a an intelligence. These are not isolated aper\u00e7us but a project worked out over repeated visits to the streets of the City, building on each other.<\/p>\n

As well as the images on the Guardian you can see more of McLaren’s work on his web site<\/a>. I”d particularly recommend his ‘East End<\/em>‘ and look forward to seeing more of his ‘Scotia Nova<\/em>‘ and there are images in ‘Westcostism<\/em>‘ that I love. But all of the projects are worth looking at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian at the end of last month published an interesting audio slideshow with Stephen McLaren talking about his five-year project documenting the City of London after the 2008 financial crisis, Moral Hazard. McLaren is one of the most interesting to emerge in a new generation of ‘street photographers’, though the genre is perhaps largely … Continue reading Moral Hazard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}