January 20, 2010
Stephen Gill, Hackney Flowers. “That day I bought a plastic camera at the market for 50p; it had a plastic lens with no focus or exposure controls. I started making pictures with it at once. Over the next two years I visited Hackney Wick again and again. Hackney has long provided a refuge for immigrants and asylum seekers from all over the world and for me Hackney Wick especially reflects the great diversity of London” “When burying my first batch of prints, a man spotted me and asked what I was doing, not only did I not want to give the location away of some of my buried pictures, but it just sounded a bit weird to say that I was burying my photographs, so I replied I was looking for newts, as soon as said that I found a newt and lifted it up and said look there’s one.”

Stephen Gill, Hackney Flowers.

“That day I bought a plastic camera at the market for 50p; it had a plastic lens with no focus or exposure controls. I started making pictures with it at once. Over the next two years I visited Hackney Wick again and again. Hackney has long provided a refuge for immigrants and asylum seekers from all over the world and for me Hackney Wick especially reflects the great diversity of London”

“When burying my first batch of prints, a man spotted me and asked what I was doing, not only did I not want to give the location away of some of my buried pictures, but it just sounded a bit weird to say that I was burying my photographs, so I replied I was looking for newts, as soon as said that I found a newt and lifted it up and said look there’s one.”

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