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What happens when nothing happens. Art and ideas concerning the everyday, collected by Christopher Harrup.

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East Tilbury, 2018 

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Late Summer, Benfleet, 2016

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Hedgerow, Norfolk, July 2016

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When we are young we want art that is filled with the bitter facts because we believe that evil can be overcome if we face it; when we grow older and begin to doubt this optimistic belief, we want art that does not simply reinforce the pain of our disillusionment.

Robert Adams, Photographing Evil

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Southend, Essex, 27/05/16

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Balls, North Greenwich, London, 25/04/16

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The bravery she was concerned to picture was usually set against the most common ordeal - tiredness, having to last. It is perhaps an especially American subject, endurance being one of the few glories open to many in a country where freedom is more valued than justice.

Robert Adams on Dorothea Lange, Why People Photograph

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Cacti, Westcliff, March 2016

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Norfolk, August 2015

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Norfolk, August 2015

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Edgware Road, London, 09/02/16 

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Found Painting, Westcliff, Essex, 07/06/15

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Belfairs Woods, Essex, May 2015

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Places of audio interest, recorded by Christopher Harrup

Sound Map, work in progress.

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Bridge to Canvey Island, Essex, 30/05/15

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For how hard it is  to understand the landscape as you pass in a train from here to there and mutely it watches you vanish

W.G.Sebald

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Barking 18/02/15

A walk through the capital’s eastern hinterland; a hostile and confusing labyrinth of galvanised steel fences, toxic landfill, the obligatory eco hub and ‘a new dawn for London living’.