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 11:
(Chapter 11 of 15, Running Time: 00:09:30)
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Chapter 11 Synopsis:
- Experiences problems with boss at new job.
- Arrives drunk at work one morning and is subsequently given the sack.
- Colleague Martin Nangle photographs aftermath of the funeral on the Lower Falls and is subsequently forced to leave Northern Ireland.
- Unemployed again, starts 7 month job in Stranmillis Training College.
- Applies for David Lavery's job at Tourist Board.
- Ends up working at the Tourist Board for 18 years.
- Taking photographs for the Tourist Board has implications for socialist orientated aesthetic.
- Takes some of his best photographs during this period.
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