Exercise - Read Survival Programmes in Eight Magazine

http://www.oca-student.com/resource-type/foto851survivalprogrammes

Full Issue of the magazine ...

http://issuu.com/foto8/docs/vol5no1



I read the article Survival Programmes - Three young photographers - Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins, and Paul Trevor -  set out to document the growing crisis in Britain's inner cities in the 1970, they achieved a body of work so insightful that its relevance is undiminished in the new millennium

These photographers sought the country's most impoverished neigbourhoods, meeting residents and listening to how they grappled with issues of race, religion, class and justice.  They produced a brutally honest document of the times. Its not a relic of a bygone time but stands as sorry testament to how little things have changed.

Saying that though the pictures do look for a bygone age and its only 1974 .. its amazing how things have changed, although people are still poor the same there possessions look dated and minimal and the interviews, the language was very dated and things we wouldn't say today although very similar in someways, still the same old grumbles things that annoy us always.

The school in Middlesbrough tells of how the reading age of secondary school children is so poor but that is still a problem we have today.  A brixton woman tells of racial comments - which hopefully are not as bad as the were in 1974 .. but you wonder how some people may suffer.  Mrs Stephton's comments make you cringe a little, she like s England even though we welcome 'everyone' in..