Sean_Mcr
07-09-2006, 14:00
This is Hayden my nephew.
Hayden is one of my older sisters kids. Hayden's mother sadly suffers from quite severe mental illness and has done for many years. I found him on saturday waiting for one of my other sisters to come home. We waited together, i shot him. He's a kid i often feel that i've let down, that's simply because it's true, i've not been there for him enough as he has no positive male influence in his life.
This is where i shot Ben for those that can recall. I know these stairs well, i sat on them myself in much the same way as a boy. My sister is very much how my mother was. My mother took her life in 92, but she had become a shell long before that time
I'm one of seven, and most of you would have considered me anti social, all of us in fact. There is not one of us that hasn't been in trouble, that includes three girls. 4 of the seven spent time in care one of my brothers was fostered to a family
There were not ASBOS in those days, and the term chav was not yet in the media. But i'd have no doubt have been slapped with an asbo, and described as a chav by Daily Mail readers.
I don't know what a chav is, i know you could not describe an asian person in certain way or hayden in a certain way because of the colour of his skin. But white working class are fair game. Burberry cap, people like that are not meant to get above their station and wear Burberry, the should know their place.
Could you imagine people refusing to wear a pair of Levis because asian people liked them?
So to dress as Hayden does, would pretty much get him labeled a chav, don't really need to know anything more then that, chavs wear trackies and trainers and hooded tops.
All's i see when i see Hayden, is a good kid, but a troubled one. I was actually a good kid myself, sometimes good people do bad things.
I've long since left that life behind. That's down to a girl that had some faith in me and she changed my life, but not the person i am. I have always been a good person, i was simply not living a good life.
I see myself in this boy, you might see a chav i don't know. But there is more to a person then what they wear, where they are from and how they live.
Good people always do good things, bad people always do bad things. Well life to me is very much like photography, it's not always black and white
Hopefully as Hayden grows older, he'll have enough positive influence in his life to give it some value. Right now that's not the case, and i think it's plane to see in these photographs, and yes i can shoot him playing football. But what you see here is often how you find him, so they are true photographs, they may not be pretty but i think they have some beauty and truth to them
But it's fine not to like them, you'll either get why i shot him or you wont.
If you've read through that lot, thanks. But hopefully my images tell their own story
Cheers
Sean
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66284122.sI4QEs3j.20D388.jpg
Latchkeye kid
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66221342.MpB8ZSKP.20D399.jpg
a room with a view
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66218975.K0TjE2Ui.20D347.jpg
Land of hope and glory
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66220591.Ztsz3K4Q.20D393.jpg
Eye's are the window of the soul
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66426836.X70FBNS5.20D363s.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66429086.Xd5FTWV5.20D381.jpg
Hayden is one of my older sisters kids. Hayden's mother sadly suffers from quite severe mental illness and has done for many years. I found him on saturday waiting for one of my other sisters to come home. We waited together, i shot him. He's a kid i often feel that i've let down, that's simply because it's true, i've not been there for him enough as he has no positive male influence in his life.
This is where i shot Ben for those that can recall. I know these stairs well, i sat on them myself in much the same way as a boy. My sister is very much how my mother was. My mother took her life in 92, but she had become a shell long before that time
I'm one of seven, and most of you would have considered me anti social, all of us in fact. There is not one of us that hasn't been in trouble, that includes three girls. 4 of the seven spent time in care one of my brothers was fostered to a family
There were not ASBOS in those days, and the term chav was not yet in the media. But i'd have no doubt have been slapped with an asbo, and described as a chav by Daily Mail readers.
I don't know what a chav is, i know you could not describe an asian person in certain way or hayden in a certain way because of the colour of his skin. But white working class are fair game. Burberry cap, people like that are not meant to get above their station and wear Burberry, the should know their place.
Could you imagine people refusing to wear a pair of Levis because asian people liked them?
So to dress as Hayden does, would pretty much get him labeled a chav, don't really need to know anything more then that, chavs wear trackies and trainers and hooded tops.
All's i see when i see Hayden, is a good kid, but a troubled one. I was actually a good kid myself, sometimes good people do bad things.
I've long since left that life behind. That's down to a girl that had some faith in me and she changed my life, but not the person i am. I have always been a good person, i was simply not living a good life.
I see myself in this boy, you might see a chav i don't know. But there is more to a person then what they wear, where they are from and how they live.
Good people always do good things, bad people always do bad things. Well life to me is very much like photography, it's not always black and white
Hopefully as Hayden grows older, he'll have enough positive influence in his life to give it some value. Right now that's not the case, and i think it's plane to see in these photographs, and yes i can shoot him playing football. But what you see here is often how you find him, so they are true photographs, they may not be pretty but i think they have some beauty and truth to them
But it's fine not to like them, you'll either get why i shot him or you wont.
If you've read through that lot, thanks. But hopefully my images tell their own story
Cheers
Sean
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66284122.sI4QEs3j.20D388.jpg
Latchkeye kid
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66221342.MpB8ZSKP.20D399.jpg
a room with a view
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66218975.K0TjE2Ui.20D347.jpg
Land of hope and glory
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66220591.Ztsz3K4Q.20D393.jpg
Eye's are the window of the soul
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66426836.X70FBNS5.20D363s.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/571287/1/66429086.Xd5FTWV5.20D381.jpg