LB — Hull 1976–1978

£6.70

36 pages
printed in England
staple bound
14cm x 20cm

available as part of a Luis Bustamante three book bundle, here

These photographs record a primary contact between a naive photographer and an alien world. They were taken when I arrived in the UK as a refugee in the seventies. The intention was just recording the new reality just to try and make sense of it. The camera was an ideal instrument to both provide a window and some form of shield to be able to look. Formally they follow modernist conventions with no attempt at subverting them or finding new creative directions. They encapsulate a time when British industrial and political power went into decline, showing a connection between a rich past and an uncertain future, just before the installation of the neoliberal order.

Luis Bustamante

36 pages
printed in England
staple bound
14cm x 20cm

available as part of a Luis Bustamante three book bundle, here

These photographs record a primary contact between a naive photographer and an alien world. They were taken when I arrived in the UK as a refugee in the seventies. The intention was just recording the new reality just to try and make sense of it. The camera was an ideal instrument to both provide a window and some form of shield to be able to look. Formally they follow modernist conventions with no attempt at subverting them or finding new creative directions. They encapsulate a time when British industrial and political power went into decline, showing a connection between a rich past and an uncertain future, just before the installation of the neoliberal order.

Luis Bustamante

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