Andrew Moore
The short backstory is that my first visit to Belfast came about as an extension of work that I’d begun in response to the chaos of the Thatcher years. I couldn’t quite believe the pain that was being inflicted on working class communities and started to document the social fallout, first picking up a camera in 1984. The city, in some ways, felt immediately familiar — I’d grown up on a Tyneside council estate that had a lot of issues in common with those in Belfast. In other ways, it felt absolutely alien — the constant security presence and sense of threat.
The edit begins in Belfast, moves to rural Tyrone, then Strabane Barracks, the summer months and ends with a number of images made in the aftermath of some of the worst crimes (the Shankill bombing, Greysteel, Loughinisland, Ballymoney and Omagh) of the era.
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Great book launch for Michael McCann at Cultúrlann! Pick up a copy of his Burnt Out: How the Troubles Began!… https://t.co/M9GHarkXCG
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RT @Inter_Arch: Nice to see more material on the Belfast Archive website. Includes Gerry Collins shots of Bombay St in August 1969… https://t.co/kgtGGySLiK
