Ken Smith | Behind the Screens

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Within a remote coastal landscape, generations-old skills and traditional beliefs flourish. All work is manual. The pace steady. Tools hand-made from the hedgerows. Boats rowed, not powered. The language poetic. And mussel beds are washed fresh by the tides.

But this environment, which looks marginal, is in fact central. Pairing haunting documentary images with oral history and contemporary commentary, Behind The Screens shines a light on the economic processes that underlie every aspect of our lives. Even in the most unexpected places.

There was a man I worked for
he always believed in witchcraft
Well, that family did

After he was dead I was standing against his boat house at night time
and I just felt evil crushing into me 

I jump into the middle of the road out of the way of it
I couldn’t do nothing else

There was nobody near but the evil was there somehow or other

Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps
Cover: Munken Pure 240 gsm
Text: Munken Pure Rough 100 gsm

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