Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Chronicle of a death foretold

The funeral procession of Pte Lewis Hendry, 21, killed in action 9 Feb 2011, Afghanistan (archive pic).

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Small Town Shoot 'Em Up.......

Homecoming parade for 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment (EOD), Saffron Walden, Essex.

Occupy London Stock Exchange

We have been wrong.
What we have called matter is energii whose vibration has been lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

Sincerely

Albert E.



Friday, October 07, 2011

The Bungled & The Botched

Jim Mortram's sensitive portrayal of those on the margins of rural England. He says - "For the last 18 months together with people on or far beyond the outskirts of my local Market towns community I have been recording through collaborative environmental portraiture, interviews and straight documentary shoots their life stories and memories. Often overlooked and unseen by the people around them or seen and judged without the care for the stories that are there to be shared and rich bonds to be forged, a strata of honest reality and remembering these are moments of daily endurance and musings that in a generation will have passed forever." Market Town is showing at Frank's Bar in Norwich from 11th - 30th October

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Masters & Servants

The appearance of informal street traders seems to have become a regular feature of contemporary life lately. Here are two from Norfolk - one selling off stock from bankrupt businesses by auction and another selling secondhand books out of a suitcase. I took these on the same day I read a fascinating article by Robert Harris about how Supercomputers are taking most of the decisions in trading shares and commodities. In it he suggests that an absence of human interaction in the trading has created ‘financial weapons of mass destruction’ which initiated the financial meltdown in 2008.

Increasingly in the UK we hear politicians from all sides talking about 'the market' as if it is an angry god who must be appeased, but as Harris warns 'The digitised financial machine does not work for us: we work for the machine. And I do not believe that our political leaders have the faintest idea how to bring it under control'.