Selected Works: Philip Gordon

UK 1984-85 Thatcher's divided Britain

A set of photographs that I took in the early 80's in Britain about the class division that still exists in Britain. The pictures of the "Upper class" where shot in London and Cambridge and the "Honourable Royal Artillery Club". The unemployed "Working class" youths where shot in the Northern part of England, as well as the Miners Strike 1984-85.

Thatcher was ‘mending’ a broken economy, not enough attention was paid to a ‘broken society’. After Four Decades of British Protest, we are living similar times in the present day.

Philip Gordon has worked for more than 25 years as Photojournalist. Gordon has travelled around the world taking striking images that are now vivid records of the difficult social and economic challenges of an era (the Thatcherism era, the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union, the space race, and the transformation of Japan). He was born and raised in the United Kingdom, but has lived in several countries, among others Japan, UK, former URSS. He has cultivated a unique photographic style with a strong social approach.

He has been published by Der Spiegel, Time, Newsweek, The Economist, US-News & World Report, Guardian, Independent, The Guardian, The Times, Der Ziet, Asia Week, South, The Observer Magazine, Marie Claire, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Stern, Paris Match, New York Times, L'uisine Nouvelle and many other publications.

For more information about his publications, please visit REA or Impact photo library. Philip is also an animator and graphic designer, graduated in 2008 by Central Saint Martins. He currently works as animator for New Opera Hero among others.To view more of Philip’s work go to: http://blah-de-blah-to you.blogspot.com/2009/02/photojournalism.html, http://www.flickr.com/photos/blah_de_blah_to_you/

All images © Philip Gordon

Selected work: Aj Wilkinson

East wall of canteen.

A gift from an uncle: a faux blue leather bound book smelling of musk, filled with twenty-one photographs of utilitarian landscape.

The photography album is something we hold dear to our hearts, as it is a collector of memories. This book has those personal memories but not just of the people that worked there but the memories of a past industrial space, the two are parallel in their order of importance.

I see these images as a journey through a two dimensional landscape of forgotten spaces and unnamed people. Each photograph is like an exploration of an uncharted terrain.

Aj.Wlkinson began life as the son of a plumber, which meant that the bathroom was always on the change, this constant change was to signify the many years of family struggles and lies.

To escape these troubles he found the medium of photography to focus his thoughts, first he lived the life of the rock’n’roll photographer only to find the boredom of the everyday hindered his view. 1989 Staffordshire Polytechnic came into his life, which gave him a new focus of exhibiting photographer and educator. Twenty years down the line and many national/international exhibitions and two books (English Candies/Driving Blind) have been part of his achievements as a photographer. He still is a photographer/educator and a dad.

All images © Aj Wilkinson