“A foṭgrafic portrit n arcîv abt evrde lîf in ɖ Blac Cuntri”
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“Wɖ its feṃs industrịl past, ɖr wz gwñ t b an inevitbl sns v dclîn in ɖ eria, bt ẃt I hd nt cǎntd on wz ɖ rvîṭlîześn ɖt ɖ mni imigṛntgrūps hd bròt t ɖ eria.”
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Vaisakhi, Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Smethwick
Norman Soper (Best Pot Leek) Sandwell Show
St George’s Day at the Brook Street Community Centre, Bilston, 2010
Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Smethwick, 2010
Daniel Horton with his dogs on a St George’s Day parade, West Bromwich, 2010
Royal Breakfast Special at Ginghams Cafe, Bilston, 2011
Tolkien’s Mount Doom as seen in the film of Lord of the Rings
Tolkien’s iron fortress in Mordor, as seen in Lord of the Rings
Sarehole Mill, near the hamlet of Sarehole, Birmingham, where Tolkien grew up. Photograph: David Mansell
Euripides Altintzoglou’s photograph of the long-closed gates of Sunbeam Union Mill, on the outskirts of Wolverhampton. Courtesy of Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Empire Marketing Board Poster by Clive Arthur Gardiner: A blast furnace, 1927
The forest by Olafur Eliasson
Sean Astin and Elijah Wood in The Lord Of The Rings
“Mwdor cunjrz imijz v a čard wêstland xplýtd fr its rzwsz. Ɖs xibišn xplorz ɖ lncs btwn J.R.R. Tolcīn’z dpiẋnz v ɖs fanṭsīrījn in Ɖ Lwd v ɖ Rñz n ɖ Blac Cuntri v ɖ 1900z, ẇč le a fy mîlz fṛm hiz čîldhdhom.
Alñsd imijz fṛm Tolcīn’z scečbcs, sînd frst idišnz v hiz novlz n îconic iḷstrešnz bî conseptātist Ted Nêsmiʈ, Ɖ Mcñ v Mwdor fīčrz wrcs bî uɖr 20ʈ senčri raitrz n ātists hu hv bn inflụnst bî ɖ industrı̣l pârhâs v ɖ West Midḷndz. Cntmprri rsponsz t ɖ pôstindustrı̣l Blac Cuntri wl olso b on šo, includñ wrcs bî Trnr Prîz nominī Ričd Bilñm, ftogṛfr Brayn Grifin n ātist Yripidīz Altintzoglu, alñ wɖ an indor forist bî inṭnašnli aclemd insṭleṣ̌nātist Ôḷfur Eliysn.”
“Ɖ pârfl āt n contṛdictri prṣnaḷti v Britiš worātist Ričd Nevinsn z xplord in ɖs grândbrêcñ xibišn – ɖ sentrpìs v âr ōtmprôgram.
Fems fr hiz dṛmatc, ofn hwntñ imijz v ɖ batlfīld n its soljrz, Nevinsn’z arestñ pêntñz, drōñz, prints n pôstrz olso acnolijd ɖ smtmz unpaḷṭbl ifcts wor hd on Britiš ssayti. Olwz a rebl, h pṛdyst wrc ɖt renjd in vrayti fṛm ofišl worproṗganda t antīwor condemnešn – sm v ẇč wz sensrd. Wɖ mêjr pêntñz n ci drōñz n prints lent bî mêjr YC public n prîvt c̣lẋnz, includñ Têt, ɖ Impirı̣l Wormyziym n ɖ Britiš Myziym, ɖs xibišn z acumṗnid bî a fl prôgram v rletd lecčrz, twcs n uɖr xîtñ ivnts.”