Our Kids are Going to Hell

Robin Maddock; Iain Sinclair

ISBN 10: 1907112022 / ISBN 13: 9781907112027

Published by Trolley, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Our Kids are Going to Hell

Publisher: Trolley

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Robin Maddock spent three years accompanying local police going about their work in Hackney, east London. His photographs uncovered both a seedy nocturnal narrative, meandering through a young, and often underage, world of drugs and crime, but also a wider perspective of society and its interactions with the law today. An endless cycle of raids and arrests that never make the local newspapers, drugs are the most prized aspect of the raid, valued equally by both sides. Usually glamorous in their absence, they become visible only through confrontations, weapons, and a tide of visitors to the house of the parents. Glimpses of arrests and domestic and drug paraphernalia, set against the transient backdrop of fleeting Hackney street corners and stairwells, it will be familiar to but a few. The series shows a cast of characters on both sides of the law playing out their scenes with the mundane daily grind of a resigned and well-played ritual. Iain Sinclair, the esteemed writer on the history of London who lives in Hackney and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, has provided the introduction to the book.

About the Author:

Robin Maddock is a young British photographer living and working in London. In 2008 he was a finalist at the Descubrimientos at Photoespana. This is his first book. Iain Sinclair is an esteemed writer on the history of London, who lives in Hackney, and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, Hackney, That Rose Red Empire.