Picturing Derry - ACE160.2

Panning high angle shot of Londonderry in winter. Shot continues to include the Bogside "Free Derry Corner" sign, "You are now entering Free Derry". VOs talk about public images of Derry; intercut news pictures. Children tobogganing. News pictures from computer file. Two people (Dave Fox and Sylvia Stevens) spreading out photographs on a table. "A war of pictures … about how places are seen and remembered through those pictures" says VO. Printing press. Willie Carson, (photojournalist, Derry) looking at proof, his VO talking about his book Derry Through the Lens begun in 1974, and a more recent publication called A Decade and a Half. Carson’s VO continues over photographs of the city. Carson talking about images of the city and about his work; photographs on the walls of his room. He says that while many of the images show the beauty of the city, many carry a foreboding of something about to happen; none is the only truth. Clive Limpkin (Fleet Street photographer), talking about being sent to Derry in August 1969. His VO continues over winter scene of the city, describing the riot that started after a march had apparently concluded peacefully. Pages of photographs. Limpkin describes fleeing after he and other journalists were attacked because people assumed they were on the side of the Catholics, and how he came to realise the long history preceding these events.