I paid my second visit to this excellent gallery yesterday. Now knowing where to find it, I shall look it up each time I visit London.
I rather like not knowing what to find there to be quite exciting: discovering this exhibition of the work of Mark Neville turned out to be a real revelation. The photographs on display are great examples of the genre of documentary photojournalism - in this instance the subject being the Northamptonshire town of Corby. The story centres around the closing of the one-time incredibly productive steel plant and the effect on the local population. Many people who worked in the steel industry here were of Scottish descent and the images tell the tale of how their inherited culture survives against the odds.
The pictures also recount the incidents of those born with a variety of defects, possibly as a result of post-industrial pollution.
Whilst Neville and Salgado differ widely in their photographic styles, they share a common ground in which they are both telling the story of a specific people in a particular location.
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