Mental Health – Part 2
Engage the Street
by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Mid July. We’d just arrived back from holiday and I’m in front of my house and my next door neighbour is stood with his face about two inches from mine “you know what you’re problem is don’t you Andy ? you’re arrogant, aggressive and you’ve got a chip on your shoulder. Is that why you’re not working at C******* anymore because you’ve got issues ? Is that why you’re out of work because you’ve got issues ? “. I’d approached them as they arrived home and told them I’d not given them permission to be on my property. Boundary hedge issues ! Isn’t it always? His wife not for the first time was ..read more
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Street Collectors
Engage the Street
by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Chesterfield Street Collectors for Charity 2019 Chesterfield Street Collectors for Charity 2019 Chesterfield Street Collectors for Charity 2019 I’d like to think I’d have got on well with Gary Winogrand. I’d like to think we’d have hooked up and hung out together and gone out with our cameras and walked the streets of New York just snapping away. A man who preferred to do rather than talk about it and who stretched the medium of street photography as far as he could. He’d have taken me to some of his favourite New York Diners and Bars and introduced me to his mates Tod Papageorge and ..read more
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Polar Bears are for Life !
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by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Since the early days of photography, since it’s very beginnings, photographers have used the medium to document. It’s what photography does best. An image is the best way of understanding the world. I don’t have to document the world around me. It’s not my job and I don’t get paid for it, but yet I feel compelled to do so. It’s how I try and understand my surroundings. The world is in a perilous state right now, at a critical time in it’s history. It’s maybe never been more important to document what’s going on. Those photographers that have gone before whose who documented their worl ..read more
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Mental Health – Part 1
Engage the Street
by Andy Greaves
4y ago
I might come to regret this post. Even now it’s a subject which is difficult to talk about. Not just the talking about it but actually knowing what and how to say it. Sometimes you can’t put your finger on it, what’s actually wrong. You just feel low, ‘the wind is in the East’, a bit ‘black dog’ and all those other vague descriptions which try manfully to quantify the problem but only get near but just don’t quite hit the nail in the head. At one time, not that long ago here in England we’d have been told to “pull yourself together” or as a mate used to say to me “get some ale down thee th ..read more
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Living Like This
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by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Sheffield 2019 Chesterfield 2019 Chesterfield 2019 Certainly one who influenced my photographic practise Daniel Meadows is getting some well deserved recognition. His archive is now with the Bodlian Library at Oxford University and hopefully it won’t suffer cuts to public funding any time soon, unlike some photographic archives. His book Living Like This which was published as a result of his trip around England in the 70’s in his double decker bus was the first photo book I ever bought. I could afford it unlike some at the time which I couldn’t. It remains a wonderful book and ..read more
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Fake News
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by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Chesterfield 2019 Johnson pours himself a pint of Lying Tow Rag ! A gaseous weak cloudy nitro keg beer which tastes of bullshit and leaves a bitter after taste. Brewed by the Tory Brewery it sells to gullible idiots for a staggering £5 a pint !The problem with Fake News as I see it is that inevitably it becomes self defeating. Sooner or later ‘the boy who cried wolf’ will not be listened to, taken any notice of. Those who perpetuate Fake News are creating a solipsistic world i.e. the only thing anyone can believe is what they see for themselves which they can hold up as the truth. People wi ..read more
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Implode – Explode
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by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Congratulations to those English people who correctly identified and celebrated accordingly with bonfire and fireworks that ‘Bonfire Night’ or to give its correct cultural missive Guy Fawkes night is actually on the 5th November. The night when we erm celebrate Guido Fawkes’ attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder in 1605. Commiserations to those who got it hopelessly wrong on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Those of you who got the 4th ? nearly but hey an inch is as good as a mile to a blind donkey and those who think it’s tonight the 6th ? then what the ??? do you think the loud bangs ..read more
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Nostalgia, it’s not like it used to be !
Engage the Street
by Andy Greaves
4y ago
Whenever I see someone with a gun I want to get my camera out and start shooting ! As I write this England have just lost to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup Final. England didn’t really get going. South Africa strangled the play. It wasn’t particularly pretty but South Africa won it as opposed to England losing it if you get my drift. South Africa and England ? Two countries, with problems and in different ways struggling with their identities right now. South Africa post apartheid Nelson Mandela and England / UK ? Well where do you start ? No longer the once great nation ..read more
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Bollards !
Engage the Street
by Andy Greaves
4y ago
“Mate ! what are you doin ? “. I’d just taken this shot and was walking away. A lanky youth, baseball hat, sports top and trainers sat with his diminutive girlfriend asked me as if a bloke with a camera it’s not immediately obvious. I sat on the bench next to him in the naïve hope that I might give a them a quick lesson on street photography and visual literacy. Yeah I should have known better; I explained that I’d just taken the above image, “that person there bending over that bench”. “Mate I want you to delete that photo right now”, he kept calling me ‘mate’ like I we were in the same clas ..read more
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Bubble Car Murders
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by Andy Greaves
5y ago
Chesterfield Motor Fest 2019 Affectionately known as Bubble Cars this particular model was made by Heinkel in the 1960’s. People of Chesterfield of a certain age like me will be aware of what came to be known locally as ‘The Bubble Car Murders’. I asked the owner of this particular car in the image if he was aware of the murders ? He’d already had a member of the public mention it to him that day so yes he was. The National Archive Website gives the following information; COPELAND, Michael: Capital murder of Guenther HELMBRECHT on 13 November 1960 in Verden, Germany, William Arth ..read more
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