Retrospective Images
Thursday 3rd April
6.30pm in the Forum
Colin O’Brien will be presenting his ‘Retrospective Images’: a series of photographs which take a nostalgic look back at life and span a period of over 50 years. The urban landscapes capture people off-guard in run-down buildings and streets, which have long since been cleaned up or demolished. Children play, women chat, men drink and play darts in seedy pubs, couples stroll, arm-in-arm on Sundays in the City.
The commonplace is so often overlooked, but it could be argued that many of O’Brien’s photographs are the most important documentation of a way of life that has long since ceased to exist. For O’Brien, the street becomes his stage and the passing scene is compared to scenes in a play where people talk, dance, mime and perform to an unseen audience.
The ‘Retrospective Images’ are oddly timeless with no sense of place and a telling beauty and eloquence. They encapsulate connections and misconnections between subjects, many of those, societies “outsiders”. O’Brien lives in Hackney and many of his pictures are taken in and around that area.
For more information about Colin O’Brien, see: www.colinobrien.co.uk
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