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In 1979 Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon created a pop up photography studio on the street in Handsworth, Birmingham. They invited passers-by to take their own photograph, passing them the shutter release so they could control the process of representation.
Steppers - AKA Ting A Ling - now runs a youth project in Handsworth, “For a 13-year-old boy, it was fascinating, that kind of thing never happened in Handsworth.”
Raj and friend, 7th October 1979.
Tony - 1st September 1979
Sohan Lal - 22nd September 1979
Morris - 18th August 1979
Mr M Singh
George - 18th August 1979
Kulbinder
David - 7th October 1979
Audrey and her friend with members of Afrikan Star reggae band - 7th October 1979
Esther and the Beet family - 7th October 1979
Eddie - 22nd September 1979
Patrick and George
Julie
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Philip and Neil
Rajeesh - 22nd September 1979
Gurbaksh
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Kanta Korotania and her sister Amerjit - 18th August 1979
Neville
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Untitled - 6 October 1979
And finally, the incredible 'Titch'
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Born in Chicago in 1946, Wayne Sorce studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the 1970s and ‘80s, Sorce explored the urban landscapes of New York and Chicago with his large format camera, he are a few of the images.

Varick Street, New York, 1984.
East Chigaco, 1977
Halsted Street, Chicago, 1978.
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Thomas Annan (born Dairsie, Fife 1829) was a Scottish photographer, notable for being the first to record the bad housing conditions of the poor. In 1866 he was commissioned to make photographic records of the condemned streets and wynds of Glasgow.

Thomas Annan, ca 1855
In 1811 Glasgow had a population of approximately 100k by the mid 1840s this had almost tripled to just under 300k. Life expectancy in the slums plummeted, in the 1830s and 1840s it was 27: the lowest it had been since the Black Death.

Plate 1: Old vennel off High Street 1868.
Some agricultural workers from the Highlands forced off the land moved south to city to make a new life, Irish Immigrants too.

Plate 2: Broad Close, 167 High Street, Glasgow 1868
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Elizabeth Cotten was left handed yet played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, she played the guitar upside down, this required her to play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.
Clip from TV show 'Guitar Guitar' in 1969.
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Cotten began working as a maid for Ruth and Charles Seeger. In the 1950s, Mike Seeger began making recordings of Cotten's songs.These recordings became the album Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, her very first recording - she was in her 60s.
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