by Brendan Jackson | Mar 4, 2021 | Viewpoint
Cheapside My favourite shot, from that time… Bright brittle sunshine early afternoon, Cheapside, Digbeth, early 1980. A rare thing in Brum, the sunshine. A photograph that didn’t make the final cut for an exhibition that was first shown at The Photographic Gallery,...
by Brendan Jackson | Nov 6, 2020 | Viewpoint
Tbilisi Don't go breaking my heart You take the weight off me Oh, honey, when you knock on my door Ooh, I gave you my key Ooh-hoo, nobody knows it When I was down I was your clown That bruise on your thigh… how did you get it? Looks like teeth marks to me. You say...
by Brendan Jackson | Apr 20, 2020 | Viewpoint
Kandanos Up into the mountains after the opening of the exhibition in Chania, invited there by some of our workshop participants, a group of lively young people and their teachers, who guide us round their village, Kandanos, and tell us their stories. We worked with...
by Brendan Jackson | Feb 10, 2020 | Viewpoint
Midwinter Hołny Lake, a ribbon of water running north to south, beautiful in the summer, bleak now. There’s a wooden jetty here at the foot of the restored Krasnogruda Manor House (as fine a place as any to observe the stars on a warm evening or listen to a concert by...
by Brendan Jackson | Jan 12, 2020 | Viewpoint
The Mayflower ‘We are private detectives onward back from a musical pilgrimage We work under the name of the Fall Who would suspect this? It is too obvious’ The Mayflower club in Birch Street, Gorton, was a former cinema - the once rather grand Corona Picture Theatre,...
by Brendan Jackson | Apr 30, 2018 | Viewpoint
Coit Tower In ‘Vertigo’ (1958) the interior of the San Francisco apartment of the retired detective, played by James Stewart, was filmed on a studio set. Hitchcock insisted that Coit tower appeared prominently in the background, viewed through the apartment window,...
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