Paradise Park - Softcover

Karen Ingham; Robert Minhinnick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854112813 ISBN 13: 9781854112811

Publisher: Seren, 2000

Paradise Park is an anthology of photographs organised by Karen Ingham and taken by professional photographers, students and local residents. Their subject is Townhill, an estate perched on a hill above Swansea, south Wales, which was once at the cutting edge of urban planning but is now run down and with various social problems. Robert Minhinnick supplies an accompanying and evocative prose text.

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From the Publisher:

Displaying a perfect balance between art and documentary, this groundbreaking book represents the growing interest in visual culture in Wales - a movement led by Seren with its recent publications of contemporary Welsh art books and critical texts.

From the Back Cover:

Townhill and Mayhill, estates laid out on the highest of Swansea's seven hills. Sweeping sea views to the south, the green open spaces of Paradise Park at their heart. Built on 'garden city' principles, blighted by neglect, unemployment and car crime.

Townhill and Mayhill: photographers, students and residents, working together, challenging stereotypes, subverting mythologies. A project culminating in the publication and gallery exhibition Paradise Park.

Eighty-two images, by professional and amateur, resident and non-resident, exploring the concept of 'place'. Highly subjective and personal representations, reflecting a living landscape and a community in transition. Images which can be read in many different ways.

Unflinching, haunting, affecting, often unexpectedly beautiful, the photographs in Paradise Park have a sense of vulnerability, yet also of renewal and determination. This resilience is evident in Robert Minhinnick's accompanying text, an episodic shadowland, threaded between the images, yet never touching them.

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