Two things have happened this year (2015) which have been a bit of an eye-opener.
The first was a visit by someone from the North of England to see images I shot of an abandoned canal in the late 1980's. This was a series I shot over about 18 months and first exhibited in a gallery 1991/2, I moved on to other projects but return sporadically. It turned out I have many images of areas subsequently destryed by in-filling and ploughing and the last record of what was there.
I've done the same elsewhere in a later project.
The second is in many ways more important, my father commanded an IEME light tank regiment during WWII (the IEME was the Indian version of the REME -Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, and part of the British Army) it was a regiment of Sikh troops. On my last visit to Turkey I sat next to 2 Sikhs on their way to lay a wreath to Sikh troops who had fallen at Gallipoli in WWI. Talking to them they said the Sikh community has scant photographic records of their part in WWII. So the images will hopefully go into the archives (as long as my sister agrees) and we'll make my fathers war record available to them as well, he photographed the Regiment on their march from India to Egypt and the Eastern flank of the decisive tank battle between Rommel and Montgomery at El Alamein. The armoured cars were Maharaja's cars with armour and turrets and their first tanks looed like something from the first WW
Ian
The first was a visit by someone from the North of England to see images I shot of an abandoned canal in the late 1980's. This was a series I shot over about 18 months and first exhibited in a gallery 1991/2, I moved on to other projects but return sporadically. It turned out I have many images of areas subsequently destryed by in-filling and ploughing and the last record of what was there.
I've done the same elsewhere in a later project.
The second is in many ways more important, my father commanded an IEME light tank regiment during WWII (the IEME was the Indian version of the REME -Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, and part of the British Army) it was a regiment of Sikh troops. On my last visit to Turkey I sat next to 2 Sikhs on their way to lay a wreath to Sikh troops who had fallen at Gallipoli in WWI. Talking to them they said the Sikh community has scant photographic records of their part in WWII. So the images will hopefully go into the archives (as long as my sister agrees) and we'll make my fathers war record available to them as well, he photographed the Regiment on their march from India to Egypt and the Eastern flank of the decisive tank battle between Rommel and Montgomery at El Alamein. The armoured cars were Maharaja's cars with armour and turrets and their first tanks looed like something from the first WW
Ian
