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ROB WALKER PHOTOGRAPHS
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White outThrough the Open DooriTunes Festival 2010Forest
The snowy suburbs of Saint Albans
For one long week snow brought chaos
to the nation. For me it was the peace
and serenity that it brought that helped
make taking photos after not using a
camera for 3 months since graduating.
White Out
In the peak of a blizzard I decided to go
photograph the silent chaos rampaging
outside. What resulted is a series of
photos which range from full of detail to
very obscure images.
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Belgravia Squaters ‘Through the Open Door’ follows a
group of London based squatters
known to the media as the Belgravia
Squatters. I followed the group for
nearly three months building up
relationships and with them to allow
me in and photograph them. With the
help of documentary film maker Mark
Guard I have had the chance to follow
them in several houses including
living six doors down from Baroness
Thatcher. Several of the group weren’t
happy with the idea of photos, for
privacy reasons but others were happy
to sit in for photos.
Through the Open Door
The Idea of this project comes from
my third year university project,
Multiple Roles. I wanted to look a
group of people seen as outcast but
who were trying to break this “role” in
society. I decided to hunt down some
squatters to photograph however I
did not expect to have such a great
group to follow. My intention was to
photograph squatters to break the
negative stereotypes that come with
the name Squatter, and this is exactly
what this group do, they squatted for
two reasons. One was too live and
sleep, the second was the bring to the
attention of the public these giant
houses empty in central London.
The Thatcher House was the first
squat the came to my attention in the
media and the reason why I chose to
photograph them in the first place.
With the newspapers giving the basic
road and house information I decided
to just stride up to the house, camera
in hand and ask I could document
them and surprisingly enough after a
cautious start the agreed and I started
shooting the next day.
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Foals & 2 Door Cinema Club
iTunes Festival 2010
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Into the trees
Forest
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