Robert Golden is a photographer who photographed British Industrial workers during the 1970’s and 80’s as they went about their daily life. Realising years later that he had documented a pivotal point of changing society, Golden created the exhibition ‘Home’, so-called because he felt those affected by the fall of British Industrialisation (due to companies finding cheap labour abroad) had lost their ‘home’, figuratively and sometimes literally.
His website explains that;
”Home’ is about how billions of people’s homes, villages, towns and even nations have been and still are being affected and often damaged or destroyed by decisions made by non-elected agencies and corporations.’
‘Home is not just where you come from, but where you belong.’
There is also a book, ‘Home’, about the exhibition and Golden’s experiences of being a photographer available.
I find these images incredibly moving. There is a narrative in each one, that is repeated further and further as history repeats itself.
