INVESTMENT 1(i)

STEP ONE - PHOTOGRAPHY - SATURDAY 4TH APRIL 2009

INVESTMENT:
the investing of money in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
a devoting, using, or giving of time, talent, or emotional energy, for a purpose or to achieve something.
any covering, coating, outer layer, or integument.
the act of investing with a quality or attribute.
investiture with an office, dignity, or right.
a refractory material applied in a plastic state to a pattern to make a mold.
Archaic - a garment or vestment.

Origin:
1525–35; ML investire to install, invest (money), surround, clothe in, L: to clothe in, deriv. of vestis garment

PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE

I chose the area north of the Town Hall to begin my research
in order to explore its particular discordance
and examine whether it might be caused by, or merely expressed by, the way in which design has been approached.

It was by chance that I chose to begin this research in perhaps the only outdoor public area of Hastings where, I am now informed, photography is forbidden.

I had taken about 40 photographs here, mostly outdoors, when I was told by one of Priory Meadow's private security guards that
it is forbidden to stand on any land belonging to Priory Meadow, whether outdoors or indoors, while taking photographs in any direction.
He told me that the forbidden zone includes Queens Square, and runs along Queens Road and wraps part of the way around the Town Hall,
and that its eastern boundary is marked by this grid which divides the pavement of Queens Road,

and that its southern boundary is marked by this grid which crosses this street (by the bottom of Middle Street) alongside the Town Hall




When I got home I researched Priory Meadow in a different way.
I read about others' experiences of being forbidden from taking photographs at Priory Meadow
and saw the sparkling yet unused publicity for the beauty of Priory Meadow's glass roofs
seeFlickr here

The land was once ocean, and was the harbour of Hastings.
It became the Cricket Ground of Hastings.
Now it is, and belongs to, Priory Meadow
which it seems is a commercial company
managed from Belfast and let from Tunbridge Wells.
One-third of Priory Meadow's land is still open to the skies
and to Google earth but none of it is open to earthbound individual photographers.

Step Two may now have to change.
For this reason I am not publishing the photographs here.

 

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