JOHN COMINO-JAMES: Fairground Attraction

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JOHN COMINO-JAMES: Fairground AttractionEvery week between Easter and November around two hundred funfairs open in cities and towns across every part of the UK. Some 4500 Travelling Showmen and their families run them an extraordinary group of people who make up what has been described as the largest extended village in the country. Most of us never encounter showmen directly: often wrongly confused with other travellers and frequently seen as outsiders they have their own strong cultural

Previous solo exhibitions include Portugal

210 colour photos

For some his camera seemed cold and cruel as it followed the working classes desperately pursuing their holiday dreams surrounded by dereliction and decay and wading through the apparently endless detritus of a pollution-ridden consumer society

His work is in many major collections and in 2010 it was included in Traverse

as well as into its archive of personal effects of the border crossers

introduced by Anne Wilkes Tucker

World Press Photo 2010 Contemporary Issues 2nd prize stories

He now lives in the Pyrenees

visual language that triggers thoughts and emotions

with its emphasis on dramatic moments of action

ISBN: 978-1-904587-89-7

Quarterbound hardback

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