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    Queenstown

    by Stephen Shaw

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    Queenstown became a personal poem completed over 3 years. It is about the last seven people housed in high rise flats in Blackpool that were waiting to be demolished. This area had the highest male suicide rate in the country. The flats are now gone and replaced with new housing and it feels important to have an accurate testimony to how the community lived in this notorious area for the benefit of future generations. This will preserve memories and archive how residents endured in their own environment. Good times, bad times, happy times spent laughing and also the sad times. The images show the primitive, confined and prison-like buildings these colourful characters lived inside throughout a hard and challenging, fast changing technological era. The work revealed the culturally significant mostly ignored, less visible problems in their life. I used Queenstown as an introduction a backdrop and starting point for my own personal narrative. When looking hard enough the unseen becomes visible. Common patterns that speak a truth and a pain most people are blind to. A personally endured message. Open secrets in society. I collect audio on the go binding this unique tangible alongside the visible as an extra layer of evidence of my sitters time spent on Queenstown. All the quotes in this book are made by Queenstown residents and are archived truth. A personal and targeted reflection from the outsider. I am always keen to create a relaxed and honest relationship with each of my subjects. Sometimes even becoming friends. This helps reveal the deeper and more personal stories that we all have which can often be taken out of context by the same outsider, these are always the best stories. In collecting this audio and documenting the people it helps me gain more insight an in-depth understanding of the Queenstown people. It also gives the audience a deeper taste of their lives to experience. This work provides a truthful visual audio statement.
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    • Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
    • Additional Categories Social Justice, Portfolios
    • Project Option: Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
      # of Pages: 62
    • Publish Date: May 13, 2021
    • Language English
    • Keywords documentary, Blackpool, Queenstown
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    Stephen Shaw
    Blackpool Lancashire UK

    Stephen Shaw (born 1976, year of punk) was raised on Grangepark, Blackpool in the North West of England. He is an MA photographer at Central Lancaster University, and has a BA first class honours in photography. Shaw is frequently published and specialises in symbolism, Social Documentary and Portraiture, working within street / documentary. Shaw's images are motivated by pain and memorialism. He has great empathy with a desire to research failed human constructs having lived a darker side of life that he frequently questions and talks about with truth and a deep understanding of the people that inhabit its fabric, hoping to help them. This is his driving force to evolve knowledge through the photographic medium, bringing subjects he cares about to the attention of a wider audience. "Your creation destroyed by an innocent target. You’ve become what you set out to destroy".

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