gallery 10 and gallery S

[Christopher Strevens <christopher.strevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The images of Brooklyn in gallery 10 gave me a glimpse of another world. A new world of different standards, it reminded me of ‘Tooting’ when I was young and Balham and Colliers Wood. In these places the architecture and at that time the people were similar but now Tooting is “little India”, Tooting Bec is the “Arabic quarter” and Balham is a sort of place where there are Mosques, Bazaars and in all three places young women are for sale and some boys too.

 

Up in London in Soho as well and Tooting, Balham and Tooting Bec (It means stream or brook) you can by pretty much anything including a tame slave-girl or an untamed one you train yourself.

 

Like most human jungles, London is unpleasant, unjust, unequal – the most unequal place in the world – you might meet a relative who tosses diamonds like dice in the air or a beautiful girl in gold earrings and jeans sleeping on the street, homeless and broke. You give her a home and she runs off, a sort of wild place where “Penny London” lives.    

 

We get drive by shooting too and “I’m a Christian if you don’t give me £3000 out of your bank account I’ll shoot you” with his gun pointing at your chest. And lobotomised men sweeping the roads and lobotomised girls offered for sale, nude.

 

Is that Brooklyn too?

 

In gallery S the technical pictures are just that, very clean, clear, dry technical pictures taken with a 5x4 inch technical camera with its rail, rising and tilt front and back that takes 3 hours to set up then click and another 3 hours to make the technical print.

 

I did this in my technical printing but I only did my one compulsory print of dinner knives in a star arrangement. The girls came later.

 

Chris.

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