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Episode 50: David Chadwick, former UNC basketball player, author of The 12 Leadership Principles of Dean Smith (August 14, 2024)

In this episode of Faith and Sport, John Acquaviva offers our Hit or Miss with Carlos Hererra with a big conversation on the 2024 Olympics. Special Guest:  David Chadwick, former UNC basketball player, author of The 12 Leadership Principles of Dean Smith, he’s also the pastor of Moments of Hope Church in Charlotte

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Cornerhouse Exhibition: David Chadwick's 'We Were All Here, Once'

Whilst I was at the Cornerhouse I took the opportunity to look around the café/bar area where a number of David Chadwick's photographs were being exhibited. These pictures are a selection from his 'We Were All Here, Once' body of work which are a set of rarely seen images of Manchester's night life from the late 70's to the early 80's.

I love this type of Photography, documenting people's habits and offering an insight into Punk, New Romantic and Rag-doll scenes which many people would otherwise not have access to. Most of the images are extremely busy with many people in each picture doing different things. However, the picture which grabbed me the most was 'Girl in a Discotheque' which depicts one girl sat alone in a club with a despondent look on her face. Out of all the images, this one was the one which stood out as the majority all depict people dancing and enjoying themselves, whereas this particular image made me really stop and study the girl, asking questions such as: why is she alone? why is she upset? where are her friends?

The images instantly reminded me of Tom Wood's 'Looking for Love' images which he shot in night clubs in Merseyside in the 1980's. I saw these images at The Photographer's Gallery in Wood's 'Men and Women' exhibition last year and thought Chadwick's images were instantly comparable.

I would love to try out this type of Photography, documenting the night life of Manchester as perhaps a comparison to Chadwick's images. But I would fear that in the modern day people are much more suspicious and wary of people with cameras and wouldn't take kindly to some stranger taking their pictures.