Newspapers

Newspaper Pieces


Following looking at the Mark Power book where he documented the fall of Berlin wall, I was really inspired by the use of News paper cut outs to create context in the book. Because the event which I photographed is so unique and like I have previously explained it often makes the news each year, I thought this could be a great opportunity to use some newspaper cuttings myself. The ball game today tends to more so feature on the news on TV or on online articles.

Luckily however, I had some old news paper cuttings from the 1980's from when my Grandfather intact won the game. In my text which I am placing at the beginning of my book, I try to get across to the viewer how much of a traditional and historical event Sedgefield Ball game actually is. I explain how the game has been around for 1,000 years. The use of old news paper cuttings therefore I felt would again help add context and explain more about the game.

I scanned the news papers into my computer before then taking to photoshop to edit both pieces into a collage. I did this because I wanted both the newspapers to be the same black and white tone. As appose to using the newspapers as a cover for the book like the book by Mark Power which I was very much inspired by, I chose to place the newspaper image along side the text at the beginning of the book, in order to help inform the viewer and add context along side the writing.