Exhibtion: Amber Project

Recently I chose to visit the Amber Exhibition after seeing the Exhibition being mentioned on the news. After seeing the Exhbiion be spoke about on the news i then researched it through looking at what the Amber foundation was all about and more of what the Exhibition was about through visiting related websites. I posted my findings on a previous post. Now, in this post, I have presented some images i took of work exhibited in the Amber Exhbition. Ive chosen to show some of my favourite work and the work which i felt related best to my chosen dissertation subject. I've also photographed the text which went along side with the chosen images, to make it clear whom the images are by and a little bit about each project. 

My next step following the research of this project is to individually research the photographers i saw in the Exhbition. Each photographer documents the working class people of the North East in their own way. The images range across the years, some showing the coal mining eras and others portraying life after pit closures, in more recent years. 

The Amber exhibition shows working class life across the North East. In my dissertation i aim to explore the working class as a whole across the country however i have chosen to start by researching  within the area i know and come from. Most emphasis tends to be upon the north and especially the north east anyway when it comes to looking at the british working class. That being because there is a higher rate of poverty in the north and the north east. Most coal mines tended to be situated in the north of the country, therefore due to the closure of many coal mines in the 1980's this then impacted on the employment across these areas, resulting in many being left unemployed. Many villages and communities had nothing left after this era and the devastation caused can still be seen to this very day. 

When researching the portrayal of the working class through medias such as photography, most photographers I tend to think of myself are those whom have captured images of the actual people within a community. However I've gathered it is important to look at photographers who have photographed areas which are associated or classed as 'working class.'