Leeds City Museum From 2nd February till 15th April 2010
Fragments of our Industrial Past
Five Minutes till Shift Starts, Armley Mills,
© 2010. Ian Glover
About This Exhibition
In The United Kingdom up until 1833 children as young as 7 were employed in industry for very little money and in most cases under terrible conditions. (Booth, 353)
Today in developing countries very young children are still used as labour in industry working in dreadful conditions for very little. (www.savethechildren.org.uk)
These images are the start of a visual study of fragments of industrial processes in the form of still life images and the re-enactment of child labour as it may have appeared here in Leeds in the early to mid 19th century.
All of the images are shot using 35mm film (tri-x-pan), The still life shots are silver sulphite prints using archival paper. The re-enactment images are scanned negatives printed onto colour inkjet paper and are intended to emulate a late 19th century style.
References
Booth, C. "On the Occupations of the People of the United Kingdom, 1801-81." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (J.S.S.) XLIX (1886): 314-436.
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/8746.htm (7/1/2009)
Leeds City Museum From 2nd February till 15th April 2010
Fragments of our Industrial Past
Five Minutes till Shift Starts, Armley Mills,
© 2010. Ian Glover