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At the height of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85, Keith Pattison spent six months living in the Durham coastal village of Easington Colliery and photographing the people there as events took shape. With the increasing determination of the government to break the strike and force miners back to work, he witnessed from the inside a community laid siege by the state. Making what the documentary filmmaker John Grierson termed "creative use of actuality", Pattison framed a narrative sequence of images: from the optimism of August, through the deepening pessimism of winter, right to the final vote to return to work. Twenty-five years later, on Election Day 2010, Pattison took the writer David Peace to Easington to interview three of the people caught up in the strike – Alan Cummings, Marilyn Johnson and her husband Jimmy. Their memories, still freshly felt, make explicit the anger, pain, resilience and warmth captured in the photographs. Many of the photographs in No Redemption will be exhibited at Kings Gallery, Kings Place, Kings Cross, London from 28 January till 5 March 2011. Keith Pattison’s exhibitions include The Borrowers, Home & Away and Easington 1984. Photographs from this collection were included in Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now at TATE Liverpool in 2006. He works chiefly as a production photographer, working regularly for The Young Vic, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Almeida, Theatre by the Lake, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Bill Kenwright. David Peace is the author of the Red Riding Quartet, GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2004, and The Damned Utd. The first book of his Tokyo trilogy, Tokyo Year Zero was published in 2007, followed by Occupied City in 2009. He was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and GQ Writer of the Year in 2007.
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