Church atmosphere through the community

While I was looking through artists in which I could become inspired by, I found these rather intriguing photographs of Martin Parr's 'Working men's clubs' series.

The exhibition was one of four commissions for ‘Imaging the City’, in which he responded with his usual documentary style, and gently satirical take.
I found that the images were both an interpretation of Martin Parr's famous personality and an introduction to the modern day men's club.

 "It’s the dancing that I really like," says Parr. "Regardless of age, when those familiar numbers are played, up we all get, shaking our bodies and waving our arms, singing along."

“Our mutual pop history is part of our DNA. Often bands bring their own lighting to dramatise the stage show. With whirling colours and flashing lights, the heady combination of four generations dancing together was, for me, the highlight of this project.”

These photographs, to me, really show signs of a community and the way ours in rapidly developing into an ageing population. I am so intrigued how our elder population get excited and become enjoyable by the simplicities of life such as bingo or having a jig on the dance floor to the familiar songs of their generations.


This theory is something that I would like to explore into and study more about, as well as communicating and interacting with the elder generation through the church atmosphere and the mixing of myself who is from the youths of our community with the elder generations in which is very rare to see.