Pride & Push

London Pride 1993-7

Peter Marshall

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Exhibition of black and white photos by Peter Marshall, Museum of London, June/July 1998


© Peter Marshall 1998

It came, it fell and a few people noticed. My third (or fourth) one-person show with some 25 prints from five years of Pride* marches in London, on show in the museum foyer. For anyone who missed it, here are a few. You can see more on the web, both on my own site (http://www.spelthorne.ac.uk/pm) and on Fixing Shadows (linked from my site.)

Why do I photograph Pride? First because I think it an interesting social phenomenon and one that should be recorded. Then because it is fun. But also because of a certain questioning of my own attitudes that arises and a dissonance between my own more orthodox feelings and viewpoint and those of the participants. Pride is an easy event to photograph in some ways - and there are many pictures that are just too easy to take. Deliberately I don't avoid these completely as they are a part of the event, but try to go further both in these and with the other pictures.


© Peter Marshall 1998

* Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Trans-gender, Trans-sexual Pride is a bit of a mouthful and I have probably got it wrong yet again.


PUSH Magazine

Also in July, I was the featured artist in the Push artist spotlight on Push Magazine - the world's first bi-weekly (currently monthly) international PDF-based Internet magazine - which describes itself as 'a tongue-in-cheek look at how popular culture and the media intersect on the Internet from a media-friendly, yet slightly cynical, perspective'

Here the emphasis was on the London buildings from my website, the picture used being of the later Hoover building from Western Avenue, Perivale.
© Peter Marshall 1998

Push is at www.push-mag.com and the magazine is available by free subscription only.

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