Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Pottery Fields, Leeds, Spring 2006

A foreword is contributed by Tarlach de Blácam

moving through fêtes and funerals with an ease only available to an insider

but because of

the collection of farm machinery had grown

The Red River rises east of Troon and flows just six or seven miles

The hounds plunge into strong river currents

HER OWN attempts the literal somatisation of the wound and at the same time the recovery of a woman and her own right to tell her story

we remain strangers to the anonymous stream of people

In these hard-hitting

He also worked for the press

while horded things map out Peter's life chronologically

but Parr’s images bring a sense of ‘human-ness’ to those photographed that makes it easy to form an understanding and connection to the area and the community of Chew Stoke