FOPP PRESENTS:
YOUR CHILD
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SCARLET PAGE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH WAR CHILD
At Fopp Bath Café from Monday 11th September 2006. Private view and drinks on Friday 8th September from 5pm – 6pm
Fopp Bath Café is at 5 – 10 Westgate Buildings, BA1 1EB
Tel: 01225 473 830
Opening times: Mon. – Sat 9:30am to 6pm
Sun 11am to 5pm
Award winning independent retailer Fopp is delighted to announce a very special photography exhibition of Rock Photographer Scarlet Page’s work at their Bath café and store…
Celebrities will reveal the most important children in their lives in one of the most personal and intimate exhibitions seen. The show, first exhibited at London’s Proud Galleries in May this year, explores the deep bond that exists between child and carer.
War Child works with children in conflict areas to make sense of how the chaos of war can destroy even the most fundamental family connections, and to help rebuild the ties that bind.
The exhibition will capture the softer side of some the UK’s most recognisable faces. From musicians to actors, designers and dancers; from unborn babies to grown up children, each of the portraits resonates at a universal level. The mission and ethos of War Child inspired Page to explore the most powerful of human relationships - by capturing the very private moments of very public figures on film.
With portraits of some celebrities better known for eyebrow-raising antics than child-raising tactics –
including Sadie Frost, Shaun Ryder and Keith (and daughter Lily) Allen - the exhibition offers a series of acutely tender moments that look beyond the famous face – and capture the parent, godparent, and aunt or uncle that exists in all of us.
Page is an accomplished photographer, who has been photographing musicians for over a decade. In creating Your Child, she has perfectly aligned her wealth of experience with the aims of War Child.
Background
The idea for the exhibition came entirely from Page herself, who approached War Child with the concept. Rather than mounting a standard retrospective of her photography, Page was keen to put on a show that would mean something to everyone.
Across four months, Page visited the home of each subject. She would limit each shoot to no more than thirty shots– to ensure each shot adequately portrayed the atmosphere and relationship involved.
“When I came to initiate a personal project I wanted to do something that contained elements of my usual commissioned work, but had a different motivation - to benefit a charity that I believed in, as well as a fresh angle,” she comments. “In this case, it was to see people who are used to performing and
being photographed in their professional lives in a different, relaxed light disarmed by being with the children that they are close to.
“The resulting images cross the spectrum, but all the portraits carry a natural intimacy and purity that is a joy to see.”
Julian Carrera, Campaigns Director War Child comments, “War Child was delighted when Scarlet
approached us with this concept and now we’ve seen the images, we’re truly excited about the exhibition and its potential to move people. We’re also extremely grateful to all of the subjects for giving up their time to reveal themselves at their most private. We expect the exhibition will make people think hard about the strength of bond between adults and children in regular society, and how this bond is very often fractured in War Child’s world when the bullets start to fly, and the bombs drop.”
Prints can be ordered at the Fopp Bath store
For more information about how to help War Child please visit www.warchildmusic.com or call 020 7916 9276
