Sunday, 4 July 2010

If I was a photographer who was into Gritty Social Realism

the things that I would take pictures of are all the hundreds of VERY shiny, VERY flash, VERY empty climbing frames in the middle of all the council estates here. It's a real thing. People get very worked up about keeping the Kids off the Streets, and it's seems like the best idea anyone has been able to come up with is to throw a number of jungle gyms at the problem. Needless to say, it doesn't work at all. Not at all. But obviously it doesn't. I feel like if you were a naughty and insane child on an estate, the actual last thing you would want to do is crawl around in a horrible tunnel painted a bright colour. That's certainly the last thing I would ever want to do.
But they do keep building them, it seems like. I saw one just now in a park near Lizzie and Niel's house, except this one wasn't even a climbing frame, it was all this small gym equipment. Like bars and weights and stairmaster looking things, just very very little. and there was a big sign above them that said THIS IS FOR EXERCISE ONLY.
When I imagine the hideous council meeting where they came up with this idea I get very depressed.

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