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It’s carnival time, or almost so, though I’m not sure I will be going this year. I came late to Notting Hill, only discovering it in the 1990s but was immediately captivated by it, our largest street festival. For the next fifteen or so years I went every year I was in London, spending two days taking photographs and then a further several days recovering my hearing. Carnival is a hugely visceral experience, where you feel the sound and your whole body vibrates, and I wanted to try and capture something of that in my pictures.<\/p>\n
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Of course carnival is a very colourful event, and I did photograph it in colour, but somehow it was the black and white images I also took (and some years only took) that somehow managed – at least for me – to convey the spirit of the event.<\/p>\n
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Some of these pictures were among the first of mine to be put on a web site, Fixing Shadow<\/a>s,<\/em> back in 1994 or 5.\u00a0Fixing Shadows<\/em> was one of the earliest web sites to show photographs on an internet that was only just beginning to display images as well as text. The site is still on-line, though the scans, made on a black and white only flatbed scanner, while effective, are not quite up to current standards.<\/p>\n Later, J David Sapir,<\/em> who as well as setting up Fixing Shadows, a site ‘concerned with photographs of historic interest and with contemporary straight photography in general<\/em>‘ was editor of the Visual Anthropology Review<\/em>, commissioned\u00a0fellow academic George Mentore<\/em> to write the leading article in the Spring\/Summer 1999 edition (Volume 15 number 1), Notting Hill in Carnival<\/em> in which, as well as his writing about Notting Hill in particular and carnival in general from an anthropological viewpoint, also featured 20 of my pictures, each accompanied by a sometimes lengthy comment by Mentore.<\/p>\n Those of you with JSTOR or similar academic logins will be able to read it, but those without can only access the first page of the tex<\/a>t\u00a0 – and none of my photographs – without payment. (The issue also contains an excellent article by Darren Newbury<\/em>, Photography and the visualisation of Working Class Lives in Britain<\/em>, illustrated by work by Paul Trevor<\/em>, Nick Waplington<\/em> and Paul Graham<\/em>.)<\/p>\n Since 1999 a few of the pictures have appeared here and there and in 2008, twenty of them were a part of a show ‘English Carnival<\/a>‘ in London’, also still on-line.<\/p>\n I’m delighted to say that Caf\u00e9 Royal Books have now published ‘Notting Hill Carnival in the 1990s<\/a>‘ and for a mere \u00a36.00 you can buy a copy of this 36 page issue with 18 of my pictures, including just a few that I’ve not printed or published before.<\/p>\n Notting Hill Carnival in the 1990s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s carnival time, or almost so, though I’m not sure I will be going this year. I came late to Notting Hill, only discovering it in the 1990s but was immediately captivated by it, our largest street festival. For the next fifteen or so years I went every year I was in London, spending two … Continue reading Notting Hill Carnival- Caf\u00e9 Royal Books<\/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":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","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=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8685,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions\/8685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/englishcarnival.org.uk\/pm\/pm12.jpg\")
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