Peter Randall-Page Meets Evelyn Glennie / Catherine Yass Meets Charles Archer and Lily French - ACE358.3

Some of Catherine Yass’s photographs. She explains how she gets her effects by superimposing a positive image on a blue negative of the same subject. She often works with the elderly. Charles Archer and Lily French, both about to move into a Hackney tower block, especially refurbished for the over-55s. Yass explains that she wants to make an image of something she can barely imagine, in this case being twice her real age. French and Archer speculating on the photograph she will take. Yass goes to French’s house and Archer’s flat, and photographs them and their surroundings. He talks about his wartime experiences, and about being mugged in the lift of his block of flats. Yass goes to the new block and looks over the building work and the empty flats. She talks about both the building and French and Archer being in a stage of waiting, between something old and something new. She shows the photographs she’s taken so far and talks about her thoughts on the developing project. She takes more photographs including one of Archer sitting in a lift. Yass with her photographs, and explaining that her ideas of growing old have been changed by her interaction with Archer. Archer and French visit one of the new flats to see the finished photograph. French decides that Yass should take their wedding photographs. Credits.