Picturing Derry - ACE160.4

Fox and Stevens looking at The Year in Pictures and other collections; VO says that news photographs make people feel familiar with places they really know nothing about. There is no room to question the background to published photographs. Watching video of troops and stone-throwers at Butcher’s Gate. Barney McMonagle (photographer, Derry), visible in previous video, talking about the "free Derry" riots of August 1969; some of his photographs. He talks about his excitement at seeing photographs of rioting developing. His children looking through his albums. He says that photographers were always hanging around Free Derry Corner hoping some disturbance would occur. McMonagle says he stopped taking photographs in 1973 when his long-lens camera was mistaken for a gun and he was shot at. High angle shot of Derry. Book of photographs. Limpkin VO and describing how he knows which images his employers will find most desirable even while he’s taking them, and how photographers compare notes at the end of a day’s work. Picture of young boy in gas mask and other images from the disturbances.