Flavors of Utherben
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My photography expresses the interactions of creative opportunity, exposure to the elements, and time. I seek to understand the psychic energy of a locality through the life cycles of its street art.
This Tumblr reflects the people, places & things that inspire my creativity.
PEOPLE WHO MATTER:
This Little Plot
LEVANTHIA
Fisk o' Fury
Photo Credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor
Reuters article on last night’s riots in Tottenham:
“‘We know we have been victimised by this government, we know we are being neglected by the government,’ said another middle-aged man who declined to give his name. ‘How can you make one million youths unemployed and expect us to sit down?’
Tottenham has a large number of ethnic minorities and includes areas with the highest unemployment rates in London. It also has a history of racial tension with local young people, especially blacks, resenting police behaviour including the use of stop and search powers.”
Another article, from the perspective of someone who lives in the area:
“In my own street, there are poor families, Somalis and eastern Europeans, but there is also an opera singer and a book designer. Until last night, we had never felt threatened, but even as we were warned to leave the street by a masked man, it was, bizarrely, with a handshake.
The reality is that the sense of community in Tottenham is among the strongest I have ever come across in all my years living in London, the city in which I grew up.”
