ROBERT J.E. SIMPSON

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Photography: Something for the Weekend

 

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Marchel Duchamp pissed here...
(Belfast, circa June 1997)

I compiled the "toilet" series on a semi-regular basis. Men's bathrooms are generally off-limits to the opposite sex, and in this example (at a boys grammar school - Campbell College Belfast) to people of a certain age.

Uniform, and yet rather decadent... This black and white print from a 35mm negative, has been tainted by the chemicals in processing. Giving it a feel which for me has always been in keeping with my impression of men's public toilets.

 

Marchel Duchamp pissed here... (c) Robert J.E. Simpson 1997/2008 All rights reserved.
Maze recreational
(Belfast, April 2007)

I was privileged enough to spend an afternoon at the Maze prison in Belfast, guided round by an ex-prisoner.

When you come from Belfast, no matter what your political views, you can't help but be affected by the remnants of the prison and the infamous H-blocks. I took something like 500 frames, recording a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Maze prison (c) Robert J.E. Simpson 2008. All rights reserved.
aMaze
(Belfast, April 2007)

The Northern Irish government has advanced plans to pull down most of the prison and turn it into a sports stadium. But the space is fascinating, and for my money ought to be preserved as is - an eerie atmospheric shell. Let the ghosts of the past haunt it. It doesn't need to become a political mecca.

Most striking are rooms like this - the pool room - which could almost have been abandoned yesterday.

Maze prison. (c) Robert J.E. Simpson 2008, all rights reserved.
Compromising Position
(circa. April 2000)

A potentially humorous image. I snapped these two wheelbarrows in the building area of an extension to the hotel I was then working part-time as a kitchen porter in. The place was a mess, and yet they kept serving food - even after they found the asbestos in an adjacent room, separated by a plastic sheet...
The barrows had been left by the builders in this position. To me it speaks of the basic mechanics of sex...
 

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