I was told after my journey to South East Asia that I had become a man. I believed it as fact and was proud of my victory. I had collected experiences of a far off place and far removed people. I had come back and survived to tell the tales.
Basic experiences in Culture are photographs of an unreliable witness. Photographs that are proofs of the little else than the authors agency.
I want to embrace my own fallibility and accountability by revisiting photographs from this period. My affected respect as expert amateur, my authority and representation, my relationship with domination and control.

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People and their inner workings are made mostly of gaps and spaces. Holes filled with potentiality and magic glue. Very little can be known of people, what we operate on is inferred from character not quality. But people are not science, if gaps are what we mostly are then gaps it is that we have to learn to love. I hope I support those private alchemies, secret agencies and the unfolding legacies of those I don't know enough.

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The Mediterranean sees a Bronze age of retirees from the burgeoning development of the holiday industry. This demography are drawing closer and more intimate to sun splashed destinations, with more leisure time and popular media dreams of foreign paradise.

But what of community, of family, of relationships and interaction? Such chosen private diaspora produces new strains on social and personal experience.

"They deny their boredom and suppress their loneliness as this contradicts the image they wish to portray of a happy, friendly and exciting experience"
Karen O'Reilly "the British in the Costa Del Sol"

Living on a Greek island exposed a sweet vulnerability in the climate of searching within the Bronze age.

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A cuach is a traditional irish drinking bowl from which two people drink.

Marc and Rebecca Mcilhone.
They got Married
And its too late now

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Issue#06/Appaloosa: I land Beat

I-Land Beat is Crete's first Soundsystem
Built and sessioned for the first time in June 2008
Built with love and patience to bring roots riddims to Greece's largest island
Built by Kostas Paragioudakis and friends and with the guidance of King Shiloh
"So it is I-rey. Loveful Heights"
We can all build on that

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Issue#05/Appaloosa: Christos Anesti

The Death of Christ went like this.
Crete / Greece.

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Issue#04/Appaloosa: Viva!

Love your brother.
Feed your cockles.
and do what thou whilst.

Viva!

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Issue#03/Appaloosa: Gus Zhabs.

Solidarity issue. "Gus Zabs" is Tibetan for a little "respect".

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Issue#02/Appaloosa: South wind

The wind rarely changes direction here. When it does, it blows south from Africa. Bringing a strong, calm heat.

This month we look at Strong women in an overtly masculine enviroment.

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Issue#01/Appaloosa: Kin.

Our place is fractious and affects us madly.

Our place is lawless.

We're all outlaws in that land dad showed me on T.V.

Outlaws in our native land.

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