Memory Pictures - ACE429.2

On the moors. Meera Syal introduces the theme with verses saying: "… In the beginning, there was history, a history that needed to be told. … an urgency of making sure that our stories got told… other lives lived in other times, in other places… Watch my images convert history into memories…" A slide projector. Photographs. Syal looking at pictures and film. Photographs by Sunil Gupta. He talks about going to workshops on photography in New York and decided to become a photographer. He says his ideas come from within which means that images of multi-racial gay couples are dominant in his work. A project he undertook on this theme, "Pretended" Family Relationships (1988). Three images and associated poems (by Stephen Dodd). Gupta and Dodd arranging poems and photographs. Gupta says he also wanted to draw attention to "the problematic of documentary photography", of "a particular kind of black and white reportage photography" which he does not believe automatically creates a "right on" perspective. He adds that most photographs of demonstrations and other events are from "outside", from the point of view of the police, etc. Finished sections of the project which includes images from a Clause 28 demonstration. Syal looking at still and moving images. She speaks verses which talk about a newspaper report on an arson attack which killed a little Asian girl and her grandmother, and comment on racist attitudes. Alfred Drury’s Bradford statue of Queen Victoria as Empress of India. Family photographs.