I’m delighted to see another of my pieces running in this month’s excellent Effilee Magazine. It’s a story I shot and wrote for them a couple of months ago called The Englishman and the Eel. It deals with the traditional London food (which is not fish and chips) of eels, pie and mash.
The piece attempts to look at (amongst other things) the significance and the decline of the eel and its fading from the changing London consciousness. For the story I photographed those palaces of Cockney culture, the Pie and Mash shops.
I will post the 5500 word piece on my website in the near future.
It’s amazing what you find in the ‘papers these days. I opened the Grauniad this morning and found a cover feature on The Word.
The Word was a ground breaking (in terms of taste and errr… editorial judgement) British ‘yoof’ television show that showcased music and heralded the ‘reality’ concept that you find everywhere on television nowadays.
I was assigned by the Times Magazine to do a feature about the show in the mid-nineties. I stumbled upon the trannies (or most of them) a couple of years ago and managed to scan perhaps a dozen. I put them onto my archive. And them forgot about them. Until this morning. Now, I suppose the hard working busy picture desk on G2 could have searched for them but instead, they simply ran an entire feature with screengrabs…
Here’s a bit of a selection…
UK - London - Terry Christian in rehearsals for the cult British Television show, "The Word"
UK - London - A stage hand raises signage before transmission of the cult British TV show, "The Word"UK - London - Members of the audience prepare to dance on the cult British television show, "The Word"UK - London - Mark Lammar lights a cigarette in his dressing room before an edition of the cult British television show, "The Word"UK - London - Audience members before transmission of the cult TV show "The Word"UK - London - Mark Lammar in rehearsals for the cult British Television show, "The Word"
