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Red Road Underground Exhibition
Red Road Underground is the culmination of several years of work by artists Chris Leslie and Mitch Miller in documenting the final days of the Red Road housing scheme in Glasgow. Through photography, film and illustration their work examines the lives of those who lived in the city’s most striking modern housing development. Based on [...]
Read more55 & 75 Plean St – High Rise Demolition
55 / 75 Plean St – High Rise Demolition Glasgow from chris leslie on Vimeo. Short documentary film using photography, audio and timelapse photography on the demolition of two high rise flats in Scostoun, Glasgow from Summer to Winter last year. I was commissioned by the demolition company to shoot a make shift timelapse of [...]
Read moreDocument 9 Screening and Exhibition
Hope, memories, loss & community : Dalmarnock (Margaret Jaconelli) from chris leslie on Vimeo. In October 2011 I have some screenings and an exhibition of my Glasgow work as part of the Document 9 Human Rights Film Festival in Glasgow. I will be screening my short film on Margaret Jaconelli and her fight against eviction [...]
Read moreGorbals exhibition and multimedia project
I was commissioned by National Theatre of Scotland to complete a travelling exhibition and a short film documenting the Gorbals and Glasgow in transition. The film and exhibition will be shown alongside the play Men Should Weep that will open at the Citizens Theatre in September to October and then will travel with the play [...]
Read moreReturn from Sarajevo
(Non flash users / iphone users view the short film here) Sarajevo 2011 15 years after I first ventured into the city and on the surface it has changed beyond all comprehension. In the city centre you have to look hard to find war damage or sign of war. The Sarajevo Roses – memorial shell [...]
Read moreReturn to Sarajevo
This week (August 18th) I am returning to Sarajevo, Bosnia for the first time in 4 years. I have a long history and attachment with the city dating back to 1996 when I set up and ran photography projects for kids in the local orphanage. The project ran for 4 years and I returned every [...]
Read moreBalkan Archive Photography
Archive BW photography from lost negatives dated 1996 – 2001 I was sent some old photographs from a fellow photographer from Chicago – Pete Pawinski, who I worked with as a volunteer in Croatia way back in the Autumn and Winter of 1996. We were working on a social reconstruction project ran by a German [...]
Read moreRomania – 10 years on
Photographs from a week long shoot in Romania, exactly 10 years after my first visit in April 2001, documenting State Institutions and prevention and foster care services for children. My first time documenting Romania was 10 years ago in April 2001 visiting large state run institutions for children in Maramures County, in the north of [...]
Read moreJaconelli Eviction Dawn Raid
The eviction was supposed to happen last Thursday but it seemed the police were busy with another eviction in the West End of the city to deal ‘effectively’ with Margarets eviction. For days the media has hung around Ardenlea St waiting on an eviction that sometimes felt might not actually happen. The most excitement and [...]
Read moreJaconelli barricades home
I have just returned from a lock in at Margaret Jaconelli’s home in Dalmarnock- she and her family have been fighting a long battle for compensation for their home which is to be demolished to make way for the Commonwealth Games. It was a long tense day and a second eviction notice was served for [...]
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