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Brian David Stevens
Brian David Stevens (born 1970) is a British photographer, based in London. He has made work on Sound system (DJ), sound systems of Notting Hill Carnival, war veterans, the Grenfell Tower fire, the British coastline and the suicide spot of Beachy Head#Suicides, Beachy Head. Stevens' work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London and National Galleries of Scotland. Life and work Stevens is based in London, where he has made a number of photography projects. In 2004 and 2016 he photographed Sound system (DJ), sound systems of Notting Hill Carnival. Each year between 2002 and 2012 he made portraits of Veteran, war veterans following a ceremony at The Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday—just their faces photographed close-up, without cap badges, medals and insignia, against a black cloth to obscure the background, and without identifying names in the captions. He photographed the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire every day for a month in 2017. Stevens has als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound System (DJ)
A sound system is a group of DJs and audio engineers contributing and working together as one, playing and producing music over a large PA system or sound reinforcement system, typically for a dance event or party. Origin The sound system concept originated in the 1950s in Kingston, Jamaica. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers to set up street parties. The sound system scene is a part of Jamaican cultural history and responsible for the rise of modern Jamaican musical styles such as ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub. When Jamaicans emigrated to the United Kingdom, the sound system culture followed and became firmly rooted there in the 1970s. It is still strongly linked with those Jamaican-originated music genres, and some bands or producers still call themselves sound systems, such as Dub Narcotic Sound System and the On-U Sound System. When Asian Dub Foundation are advertised as ''Asian Dub Foundation'', the whole band performs, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birling Gap
East Dean and Friston is a civil parish in the Wealden District, Wealden District of East Sussex, England.The two villages in the parish are in a dry valley on the South Downs – between Eastbourne three miles (4.8 km) to the east and Seaford, East Sussex, Seaford an equal distance to the west. The main A259 road goes through both village centres. The coast and much of the land between it and the A259 from the east edge of Seaford, East Sussex, Seaford to the west edge of Eastbourne is owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust, and this has prevented further development to the area. The civil parish was formed on 1 April 1999 from "East Dean" and "Friston" parishes. A hamlet within the parish, Birling Gap, is owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust. Some of its cottages have been removed because of coastal erosion. Governance East Dean and Friston, which has its own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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21st-century British Photographers
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Sophie Parkin
Sophie Parkin (born 6 June 1961) is an English writer, artist and poet. She was previously the proprietor of an arts club in East London, Vout-O-Reenee's, opened in 2014: she left in 2023. Biography Born in London in 1961, Sophie Parkin was schooled at Redcliffe School, Oxford Gardens Primary School, Burlington Grammar School in West London, Frensham Heights Boarding School, Surrey, then Camborne School of Mines, near Redruth, Cornwall. She went on to attend Saint Martin's School of Art, Leeds Polytechnic (tutored by Jeff Nuttall) and Anthony Earnshaw, then Maidstone College of Art, where she graduated with a Fine Art degree in 1982. As a child, Parkin starred in many commercials, including for Wall's sausages, Comfort fabric conditioner and as the Dulux girl. She also modelled in ''Nova'' magazine and ''The Sunday Times'' and appeared in Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World in 1979 film. She has also appeared in film, such as the Dylan Thomas biopic ''The Edge of Love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency), Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 Bristol South East by-election, 1950 and 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014. The son of a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal and later Labour Party politician, Benn was born in Westminster and privately educated at Westminster School. He was elected for Bristol South East at the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election but on his father's death he inherited Viscount Stansgate, his peerage, which prevented him from continui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PowerHouse Books
PowerHouse Books (stylized as powerHouse Books) is an independent publisher of art and photography books founded in 1995 by Daniel Power, in Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn, with its headquarters in Industry City, Brooklyn, Industry City. PowerHouse Books is closely affiliated with Powerhouse Bookstores, a chain of independent bookstores also owned by Daniel Power, with its flagship location on the waterfront of DUMBO, Brooklyn, DUMBO in The PowerHouse Arena at 28 Adams Street. Powerhouse Books also operates a Children's literature, children's' publishing division, POW! Publishing and other activities Founded in 1995 by Daniel Power from his apartment on the Lower East Side, PowerHouse Books is known for its "Image Driven" publishing, particularly in street culture, popular culture, fashion, politics and fine arts. Its first best-seller was ''Women Before 10AM,'' by Veronique Vial, with a foreword by Sean Penn, published in 1998. In 2011, PowerHouse published ''Vivian Maier: Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café Royal Books
Café Royal Books is an small press, independent publisher across the globe]", ''Southport Visiter''. Retrieved by the Wayback Machine on 16 October 2014. of photography Photo-book, photobooks or zines, run by Craig Atkinson and based in Ainsdale, Southport, England. Coco-nut Dancers: An interview with Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books]", The Photographers' Gallery. Accessed 11 July 2014.Trench, Anna (6 February 2013)"Great new zines from Café Royal Books offer unlikely tours of Britain and America" It's Nice That. Accessed 11 July 2014. Café Royal Books produces small-run publications predominantly documenting social and cultural change, Including themes of youth, leisure, music, protest, race, religion, industry, identity, architecture and fashion, often in Britain and Ireland,Beber, Emily (3 September 2013)2Publication: Café Royal Books immerse us in all of the peculiarities of Britain" It's Nice That. Accessed 11 July 2014. using both new work and photographs from archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moore (British Musician)
John Moore (born 23 December 1964)Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 383 is a British musician, best known for his work as a guitarist and drummer in the Jesus and Mary Chain and as a member of Black Box Recorder. Biography John Moore joined the Jesus and Mary Chain in 1986, succeeding Bobby Gillespie on drum duties, later moving to guitar. When he left the Jesus and Mary Chain in 1988, he formed John Moore & The Expressway, releasing two albums. He later formed a new band called . who released several singles, and one album ''You Might as Well Live''. In 1997, he formed [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison (born 1975) is an English novelist, short story and nature writer. Early Harrison was born in Effingham Junction, Surrey in 1975. She attended a comprehensive school before studying English Literature at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1996. After graduating, she worked as a freelance magazine subeditor, while contributing a regular "Nature Notes" column in ''The Times'', columns for ''The Guardian'' and contributions to radio and television. Literary career Her first novel, ''Clay'', was published by Bloomsbury in January 2013, followed by ''At Hawthorn Time'' in 2015. Her non-fiction books include ''Rain: Four Walks in English Weather'' (2016). A third novel, ''All Among the Barley'', was published in August 2018. Her short story "The Black Dog" was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017 and she has contributed episodes to the channel's ''Tweet of the Day'' programme. She has also made appearances on the BBC Two series ''Springwatch ''Springwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Suicide Sites
The following is a list of current and historic sites frequently chosen to attempt suicide, usually by jumping. Some of the sites listed have installed suicide barriers, signs advising potential suicides to take other actions, and other precautions, such as crisis hotline phones. Exact numbers of victims are sometimes difficult to determine, as many jurisdictions and media agencies have ceased collecting statistics and reporting suicides at common sites, in the belief that the reporting may encourage others. Most frequently used locations * Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing, Jiangsu – VKK * Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, United States – more than 1,600 known suicides; the number is believed to be higher because of people whose bodies were never found. * Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 492 suicides before the Luminous Veil, a barrier of 9,000 steel rods, was constructed in 2003. * Aokigahara forest, Mount Fuji, Japan – as many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Downs National Park
The South Downs National Park is England's newest national parks of England and Wales, national park, designated on 31 March 2010. The park, covering an area of in southern England, stretches for from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east, through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. The national park covers the chalk hills of the South Downs (which on the English Channel coast form the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters, East Sussex, Seven Sisters and Beachy Head) and a substantial part of a separate physiographic region, the western Weald, with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales. The South Downs Way spans the entire length of the park and is the only National Trail that lies wholly within a national park. History The idea of a South Downs National Park originated in the 1920s, when public concern was mounting about increasing threats to the beauty of the downland environment, particularly the impact of indiscriminate speculativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
