Losing Ground
Donovan Wylie
Fourth Estate
English
Text by Andrew O’Hagan.
Softcover
64 pages
210 x 147 mm
1998
ISBN 9781857029185
*This photobook is on loan for the PhotoIreland Festival 2022 from Christine Redmond.*
In 1993, photographer Donovan Wylie began documenting the lives of a group of young people who were first dubbed by Thatcher as New Age Travellers. He found them in a lay-by on a main road in Gloucestershire and has been photographing their lives ever since. Losing Ground tells the intimate story of one gathering of individuals searching for an alternative. Whether disillusioned by modern culture, excluded from it, or simply seeking a safe haven, this group found each other and created its own refuge outside society. Donovan Wylie’s photographs chart their progress and decline, from the idyllic rural setting of Gloucestershire to London’s urban underworld.
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About the Artist
Donovan Wylie (b. 1971, Belfast) a child of mixed Catholic and Protestant marriage. His book The Maze was published to international acclaim in 2004, as was British Watchtowers in 2007. In 2001 he won a BAFTA for his film The Train, and he has had solo exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, PhotoEspana, Madrid, and the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, England. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
donovanwylie.studio
(source: http://www.troublesarchive.com/artists/donovan-wylie)
About the Publisher
Fourth Estate is an English publishing house founded in 1984 in Notting Hill.
4thestate.co.uk
(source: https://www.4thestate.co.uk/about/)
