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'…feeling I don't belong. Walks through leafy glades with a baseball bat by my side…'
Pollard, Ingrid, born 1953 - Enlarge image
'…feeling I don't belong. Walks through leafy glades with a baseball bat by my side…'
- Object:
Photograph
- Place of origin:
Lake District (photographed)
- Date:
1987 (photographed)
- Artist/Maker:
Pollard, Ingrid, born 1953 (photographer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Gelatin-silver print, coloured by hand
- Museum number:
E.725-1993
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, room WS, case R, shelf 61, box L
In the series ‘Pastoral Interludes’ Guyanese-born British photographer Ingrid Pollard explores issues of race, representation and the British landscape. The posing of her subjects in the Lake District, the epitome of authentic rural Britain, reveals the feelings of alienation and ‘otherness’ often experienced by black British people in rural areas. As a black British female artist, Pollard is one of those people whom the historian and writer C.L.R. James described as being in a position ‘to give a new vision, a deeper and stronger insight into both Western civilisation and the black people in it’.