Picturing Derry - ACE160.3

Photographs of events on Bloody Sunday. Fox and Stevens at the table. "How can we tell what these pictures mean?" Eamonn Melaugh (photographer, Derry) describing events of Bloody Sunday (January 30th, 1972), pointing out where people were shot during an anti-internment march. Newspaper reports and photographs. Countryside. VO of Terry Fincher (international photojournalist) saying that he’d covered ‘quite a lot of conflict’ since the mid-1950s; he believes that Northern Ireland is receiving less coverage that in the 1970s and he feels it important to keep the issues affecting this part of Britain in the public consciousness. Some of his photographs. He points out that photographs can be misinterpreted – shows one of his images from Aden – and argues that photographers want to keep their pictures as truthful as possible. Inside Camerawork (community photography project, Derry), with a montage of images on display. Camerawork worker describes a project they did on young people when they made a decision not to show images of the war. Other Camerawork workers talk about how people make money out of images of suffering and anguish, and only appear to be interested in "the bad bits" of Derry. They want people who are part of the local community to be able to produce their own images and decide what outsiders should see.