- Venue
- Lighthouse, Poole?s Centre for the Arts,
- Starts
- Friday, April 15, 2011
- Ends
- Monday, September 12, 2011
- Address
- Kingland Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1UG
- Location
- South West England
This exhibition aims to documents our working environment; photographs that show the traces of histories, the remains of old infrastructures and the development of new ones. Local photography club the Happy Snappers have worked with artist Joe Stevens. Together they have been working on an oral history project called “Our working Lives’. We have been talking to local residents about their early working lives, covering; the jobs they did, how they found work, and the career advice they received. We have been working with Poole Museum on this and it was interesting to see the lack of records in their photography archive on people at work and the places where they worked. They have a lot on the Mayors, official functions and the scenic places, but not so much on the everyday landscape that we travel through; the trading estates; the shops and its commercial panorama. Alongside these new works we will be exploring archival record photographs that document Poole’s working landscape; its trading estates; the shops and its commercial panorama. These spaces are ones you simply drive through, that when you pause to recall it, leaves little or no lasting impression; that passes as if in a blur.
