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Rioters stoning RUC vehicle

at the top of Leeson Street, Belfast, 1978


‘It was a time of great poverty and rising racism.

Street riots and police violence

were becoming a common occurrence

in many of the cities in the UK,

and it seemed to us that these problems

could easily escalate into a similar chaos

as that which existed in Northern Ireland:

a civil war with the army deployed in the streets’

Photograph: Chris Steele-Perkins

‘They stood firm’:

Poverty and police violence in 70s Northern Ireland – in pictures

In 1978,

Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins visited Northern Ireland

to document the lives of Catholic communities from the inside:

‘I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so’

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Wed 28 Jul 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/28/
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Soldier pointing rifle, bottom of Clonard Street, Belfast, 1978

‘I take photographs, and photos explain nothing; they describe.

These photographs go some way

towards describing a Catholic community under attack

by a largely Protestant community

backed up by the British state’

Photograph: Chris Steele-Perkins

‘They stood firm’:

Poverty and police violence in 70s Northern Ireland – in pictures

In 1978,

Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins visited Northern Ireland

to document the lives of Catholic communities from the inside:

‘I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so’

G

Wed 28 Jul 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/28/
they-stood-firm-poverty-and-police-violence-in-70s-northern-ireland-in-pictures

Republican funeral, Catholic west Belfast, 1978

‘Despite the sectarian killings,

despite the illegal process of internment, they stood firm’

Photograph: Chris Steele-Perkins

‘They stood firm’:

Poverty and police violence in 70s Northern Ireland – in pictures

In 1978,

Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins visited Northern Ireland

to document the lives of Catholic communities from the inside:

‘I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so’

G

Wed 28 Jul 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/28/
they-stood-firm-poverty-and-police-violence-in-70s-northern-ireland-in-pictures

Chris Steele-Perkins    UK

Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins

was born in Burma in 1947

to a British father and a Burmese mother,

then moved to England aged two

and grew up in Burnham-on-Sea.

He studied psychology in Newcastle

before turning to photography,

which has taken him all over the world,

from Afghanistan,

where he spent time with the Taliban,

to Japan, which he visits regularly

with his Japanese wife Miyako Yamada.

Closer to home,

he has documented teddy boys,

for his seminal 1979 book The Teds,

and extreme poverty

in Troubles-riven Belfast.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/22/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/28/
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/22/
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https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/oct/10/
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/15/
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/jul/15/
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/26/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/oct/16/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/28/
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