I’ve got a lot of social documentary photography books, including a few pretty grim ones, and yet these photographs knock all that out. I don’t think I can remember seeing more devastating pictures.
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She has real compassion for her subjects too. Nothing exploitative.
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Definitely, these are amazing. There’s loads of terribly exploitative YouTube videos about Kensington in Philly.
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Thats proper Tim ! Great watch 
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Saturday has got in the way so not even halfway thru yet.
Seems pretty good but I always watch these things looking out for what they might have missed!
Watched the first 2 eps on Channel 4 in a doco series taking kids from a London school swapping places with kids in Arkansas USA which so far has some really heartwarming moments. One kid from the US had never even been on an escalator let alone a plane to another country!
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Can’t watch any of those… few years ago Kensington became a destination for idiots looking for content,I there’s rules there that you don’t film in certain areas and blocks and a few vloggers found out the hard way…
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I thought the series was good, but found the second episode to be a little wide of the mark. The disorganisation and lack of control/response to the extreme behaviour of the pupils just didn’t sit right with me. Especially in the immediate aftermath of such a traumatic event.
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This gets so many things right…nice memories… the way of opening US records, I still use the seam of my jeans to do it.
I remember JP could do it in one swipe, which was impressive.
Tony Monson - I remember his van parked on Berwick Street with records in the back…
…and the comment about knowing the right record for a customer. It was always a buzz to get a DJ to hear a 12”, then see them play it out later.
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It wasn’t for clout or credit, but counter staff loved sharing the new bits - we didn’t even get commission- should have asked for some actually!
Gilles P got a lot of his records from all the counter staff at different shops, myself included - but his talent was to be open to it.
Lots of of DJs, too many DJs would turn their nose up to recommendations, ask who else had it, or say they wanted to find their own.
The good ones always took the recommendation. Derrick May, Francois K they wanted a London sound and were open to listening to what we liked.
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Good point, hopefully the school wouldn’t be that grim and uncontrolled in reality. Worryingly a kid got expelled from my daughter’s (she’s just 10)primary school last week for bringing in a kitchen knife in response to some altercation the previous day. As is usual you think that sort of thing wouldn’t happen at a school like this, so the show really hit home.
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I stumbled across that too, somewhat unfairly I thought I’d stay to snigger at the good 'ol boys from Arkansas but it was a really charming show with some great moments. The kid’s bucket list… And he admitted it consisted of a list of animals he wanted to kill 
The gun thing though, fucking hell.
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I thought Adolescence was good but not great. Amazing performances and great writing but the one shot technique hindered the story telling I thought and the issues it is raising were really only skirted over. This subject is one that crosses into my line of work so perhaps I’m a bit immune to some of it, but it hardly offered much of an explanation for what had gone so wrong.
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What shops did you work in? I might have missed this on a thread somewhere…
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Vinyl Junkies and MVE (Notting Hill Soul & Dance) and the Berwick Street/Greenwich ones
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Just watched this tonight. Such a tragically short life. Many parallels with the life of Joan Eardley, also overlooked for decades
Ah nice. Didnt realise. 
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Watched it this morning… Beautiful documentary
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That’s on the list. Glad it’s good!
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