Suburban Safari

A series of new photographs

The elephants were walking across my grandparents sideboard, in their kithen parlour, where thery had an open coal fire/oven that they used for cooking. We went there for Sunday supper. That would be in 1953/4. My grandad worked in the Teversal pit (coal mine) mentioned in 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'...everybody spoke like Mellors, the Gamekeeper..."Tha mun keep on t'causeway serry!"

The airplane was a present that I bought for Ginny on her birthday one year (not specified). The fan is from an art college print department...it used to dry the silk screen stencils. The wicker furniture was from Harrods.

The first time I photographed this safari was in 1977, in colour on slide film. These are taken yesterday afternoon on a Panasonic digital camera with a Leica lens.

The first Suburban Safari was four colour prints which was ambitious for the time as photograpic prints were not at that time a popular art form for collectors.

Toto is our Border Terrier and they are now a very popular breed here in England.