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To celebrate the recent launch of Photographer Matt Writtle’s photobook and exhibition Sunday: A Portrait of 21st Century England acclaimed Times journalist, writer and broadcaster Hugo Rifkind will be interviewing Matt at his solo exhibition to discuss the project and Matt’s practice in more depth.
The photo series is the culmination of 10 years’ worth of work exploring the changing face of Sundays in England. Matt will talk about the creation of this photo series; from why this cultural shift in Sunday behaviour first captured his interest, how he chose and photographed his subjects and how he brought together this large body of work into one, self-published book. Our two speakers will look at the wider cultural discussion the photobook highlights, namely, a move away from Sunday representing a day of more traditional and religious worship, rest and reflection and towards something new, and how the medium of photography has allowed this to be captured.
The talk is FREE TO ATTEND but please RSVP to mail@mattwrittle.com by 1 November.
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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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