- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Trolley (1 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1907112022
- ISBN-13: 978-1907112027
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 445,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Robin Maddock spent three years accompanying local police going about their work in Hackney, east London. His photographs uncovered both a seedy nocturnal narrative, meandering through a young, and often underage, world of drugs and crime, but also a wider perspective of society and its interactions with the law today. An endless cycle of raids and arrests that never make the local newspapers, drugs are the most prized aspect of the raid, valued equally by both sides. Usually glamorous in their absence, they become visible only through confrontations, weapons, and a tide of visitors to the house of the parents. Glimpses of arrests and domestic and drug paraphernalia, set against the transient backdrop of fleeting Hackney street corners and stairwells, it will be familiar to but a few. The series shows a cast of characters on both sides of the law playing out their scenes with the mundane daily grind of a resigned and well-played ritual. Iain Sinclair, the esteemed writer on the history of London who lives in Hackney and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, has provided the introduction to the book.
About the Author
Robin Maddock is a young British photographer living and working in London. In 2008 he was a finalist at the Descubrimientos at Photoespana. This is his first book. Iain Sinclair is an esteemed writer on the history of London, who lives in Hackney, and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, Hackney, That Rose Red Empire.
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Robin Maddock presented his book to the public last sunday at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
First there was an interesting slideshow of selected pictures from the book with the music and lyrics of one "dizzie rascal", a local rapper, telling stories of street life, dealing drugs, being stopped and searched by the police, etc. etc.
they tried to match the picture with the lyrics.
it's unfortunate that just that kind of gangstah culture expressed in the lyrics and imported largely from USofA that creates the fertile ground for the false mythology of invicibility and immortality or worst, of being doomed to dying young, that is so detrimental to their lives.
Photographer RM for 3 years has followed police conducting drug raids in hackney, minor raids, the ones, as RM put it, that won't make even the local papers.
RM has tried to document those raids in without any judgement, without leaning on one side or the other.
THese is a lot of sadness in these pictures, the subject are sometimes blurred, there is like a haze surrounding some of the shoots, the eyes barely open, a combination of substances and sleep, these raids take place very early in the morning; the parents watch the police take their children for questioning or imprisonment; the houses and flat must be searched, everything is on the floor; the furniture moved around and lifted to search narcotics.
RM says that perhaps the title of the book should be a question; and I think the answer to that question ("Are our kids going to hell?") is yes, our kids are going to hell and they are draggin us with them down the hole.
First there was an interesting slideshow of selected pictures from the book with the music and lyrics of one "dizzie rascal", a local rapper, telling stories of street life, dealing drugs, being stopped and searched by the police, etc. etc.
they tried to match the picture with the lyrics.
it's unfortunate that just that kind of gangstah culture expressed in the lyrics and imported largely from USofA that creates the fertile ground for the false mythology of invicibility and immortality or worst, of being doomed to dying young, that is so detrimental to their lives.
Photographer RM for 3 years has followed police conducting drug raids in hackney, minor raids, the ones, as RM put it, that won't make even the local papers.
RM has tried to document those raids in without any judgement, without leaning on one side or the other.
THese is a lot of sadness in these pictures, the subject are sometimes blurred, there is like a haze surrounding some of the shoots, the eyes barely open, a combination of substances and sleep, these raids take place very early in the morning; the parents watch the police take their children for questioning or imprisonment; the houses and flat must be searched, everything is on the floor; the furniture moved around and lifted to search narcotics.
RM says that perhaps the title of the book should be a question; and I think the answer to that question ("Are our kids going to hell?") is yes, our kids are going to hell and they are draggin us with them down the hole.
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