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Photographer Matt Writtle invites fellow Photographer, A Small Voice podcast host and writer Ben Smith down to his exhibition Sunday: A Portrait of 21st Century England to discuss the practicalities of creating, funding, publishing and launching your own photobook and exhibition. Matt will reveal the finer intricacies of how his recent project which has spanned 10 years of work came to fruition.
Sunday explores the huge cultural shift away from traditional churchgoing and what this represents of wider cultural changes. For centuries Sunday has been known throughout Christian England as a day of worship, contemplation and reflection; the one true day of leisure. However, with weekly church attendance figures now falling below one million for the first time Matt asks the question what are people doing instead? And how does this reflect wider cultural shifts of our time.
The talk is FREE TO ATTEND but please RSVP to mail@mattwrittle.com
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Matt Writtle is a documentary and portrait photographer from the Black Country, now based in London. His practise is focused on giving a voice to the person who is rarely heard, showing a fresh side to a face that we are weary of seeing, or revealing a world that we never new existed.
Writtle's current project Sunday: A Portrait of 21st Century England will be presented as an art book and launched at the Photographer’s Gallery in October 2017. The project documents how people living in England spend their time on this traditional day of rest and challenges the viewer to question the value of leisure time in a digital and consumerist culture. Sunday follows on from the successes of previous project such as Portraits for Posterity; a national archive of Holocaust Survivors living in Britain today, which has been exhibited all over the UK.
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