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| Shale Britannia: a Sideways Glance at Speedway A Poignant Photography book by Jeff Scott, who teamed up with designer and fine artist Rachael Adams to produce a unique pictorial record of British speedway For more information, or to purchase a copy online please go to www.methanolpress.com Waves of nostalgia regularly sweep our cultural lives, as we search for a more idyllic time in our recent past – that we can affectionately view as somehow untrammelled by the pressures, values and mores of contemporary life. On television, Life of Mars superbly captured a hankering for a return to the alleged simpler times of 1970’s. In fact the spirit and, arguably, the values of the 1970’s, is alive and still well in Britain in 2007 – at speedway tracks round the country! In its heyday, most British families would have known someone who’d visit the local Speedway track, to inhale the dust and fumes and be thrilled as they watched the boys on bikes without brakes. Sports and events were for local communities, supported passionately without the apparent need for endorsement from television or the outside world. Time affects even Speedway and Jeff Scott’s photographs preserve its contemporary people and places. They are a vivid historical documentary archive. His photographs produce truthful, objective, and candid images from a journey taken round the United Kingdom, as he attended Speedway meetings throughout 2005/6. Unguarded moments are extracted from the swirl of the event. Picture editor Rachael Adams notes, “sifting through these pictures turned out to be a joy. A nostalgic trip that filled me with sadness, yet also created a tremor of excitement since, once submerged in the drizzle or sunshine of these pictures, they brought back the smell, the noise, the Britishness of the sport. I combed through them: editing, juxtaposing, contrasting, scaling, cropping. And so the narrative emerged. It’s a pictorial record of us.” Speedway tracks and their surrounds may lack the sort of crowds that the corporate media values, but they are nonetheless densely peopled with the ghosts of a proud history. With these images, Scott reveals with tender melancholy a community as it struggles to recapture the glories of its past. |
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Daily Telegraph: It is not an easy leap from Italian football to British speedway, but it has to be made to pay appropriate attention to Shale Britannia: A Sideways Glance at Speedway (Methanol Press, £15). The title barely does the work justice, for it is not so much a glance as a full-on stare. It is an almost entirely pictorial record of the quixotic sport, compiled by Jeff Scott, who is splendidly privileged to be Writer in Residence at Eastbourne Stadium. There is more than a hint of the great, sly realist Martin Parr in Scott's photographs, which capture a scene that has barely changed in many respects since the Seventies. It is a very attractive volume, neatly designed by Rachael Adams, and anyone who has ever caught the whiff of Castrol R on the evening air will love it.  |
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