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  • Let us tell the stories of the dead
    Writing on and around Victoria Cheape‘s ‘Let the old dead make way for the young dead’, as exhibited in Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow, as part of Futureproof 2011. Words © Rowan Lear, 2011. Pictures © Victoria Cheape, 2011. In an unobtrusive corner of the gallery, a quiet kind of immortalizing is taking place. Sixteen black and white prin […]
  • This is a photograph
    This is my Grandma’s house in Devon. I think that’s one of my cousins with my Grandma’s dog Yarty. My brother and I used to go there in the summer when I was wee. We had a paddling pool in the back garden. This is me with my dog Jane. My hair is really short [...]
  • My brother’s photograph
    I am sitting on the floor of a small room surrounded by hundreds of photographs. They cover the floor, the chairs, the table, the shelves, my bed. I have begun to mount them onto index cards, which has enabled me to begin to estimate how many I have. At the moment 400 cards have been [...]
  • Not my mother’s album
    A few months ago, I began to compile an album of photographs – found photographs – with captions, and called it ‘Not my mother’s album’. Unbeknownst to me, my mother had begun at the same time, to create an album of sorts, in memory of her father (which I shall hereafter refer to as ‘My [...]

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