Alec Gill's 'The Hessle Roaders' B&W Photo Exhibitions - a Short Film by Mark Richardson
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2017
- Mark Richardson did me (Alec Gill) a great honour when he asked if he could make a short documentary film about my B&W Photography Exhibition called "The Hessle Roaders".
I was delighted and had no hesitation to agree straight away. During 2017, when my hometown Hull was UK's City of Culture 2017-2021, this exhibition toured three top venues in the port at its Hull History Centre (May-June); St John's St John the Baptist, Newington, Hull (in the heart of the former fishing community August-September) and the well-known Hull Truck Theatre (October-November).
I have never received funding during my forty-plus years of documenting the people of Hull's Hessle Road Fishing Community; but Smith & Nephew agreed to sponsorship the production of the initial 100 photographs.
In total, I took 6,636 negatives during the 1971-1986 period. During 2016, I digitized 1,300 images. From these came the 100 in the initial exhibition. Many, many more exhibitions are planned with Curator and Producer Paul Berriff OBE and myself. We want to show these images to a world-wide audience in top galleries around the planet.
Thank you Alec for such a interesting feature of Hessle Rd. I am a ex Hessle Roader my father and all his brothers were fishermen !! Oh so true your programme ! A big thank you Marjorie. From Greece Thanks to modern tech !!!!!
What lovely songs to listen to I imagine my self still living in those days in abby Street all of my family lived there it was great in those day such interesting pictures to watch great days great hull
Fantastic 😀
I’m the last of my generation to live down the “old Hessle rd” our house got knocked down. St Andrews street. I was only 7. 40 yrs ago wow… my grandparents both worked in the fish industry. My grandad was a bobber. Nan filleted the fish. Good ole days.
Hessle rd was great in its day, half my family are from there,the other half holderness rd.