ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
BILL KIRK
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Newtownards, County Down
Date: March 2006
Still taken from: 'Sandy Row' by Peter O'Doherty
Chapter 6:
(Chapter 6 of 15, Running Time: 00:12:23)
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Chapter 6 Synopsis:
- Sectarianism becoming more evident by the '60s.
- Tensions more evident in Belfast than in Newtownards.
- Photographs Lower Falls, Pound Loaning, Shankhill and Sandy Row with Dave Scott.
- Got a job photographing Sandy Row for 'Building Design Partnership' using rising front lens (1973-74).
- Found to have TB after long months of testing - spent 6 months in hospital.
- Starts three year course at Art College.
- Gets two-man show with Arthur Watson - 'Ulster Photographs' - after Walker Evans' American Photographs.
- Married by this time - first child born in '57.
- Sale of property (left by Grandfather) helps ease finincial strain caused by study.
- Heightened tensions, Loyalist gun manufacturing, Gusty Spence convicted (1966), killings in Malvern Street (1969).
- Bombay Street Burnings in '69 - signal arrival of bad times.
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