Stewart Weir
Photographer & Writer
Category: Black & White
January 30, 2012
Pinhole Experiments
Zero 2000 6x6. Fomapan ISO 200 f138 at 19 seconds. ©Stewart Weir 2012
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December 14, 2011
Afghanistan Street Portraits
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed” – Dwight D Eisenhower
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Herat and surrounding areas shortly after the fall of the Taliban, January 2002
December 4, 2011
New York Thanksgiving 2004
New York ©Stewart Weir 2004
December 2, 2011
Manhattan Deli
New York ©Stewart Weir 2004
November 30, 2011
Karoshi
Karoshi is the name given to death caused by to much work. There is a national Japanese karoshi hotline, a karoshi self-help book and a law that funnels money to the widow and children of a salaryman who works himself into an early karoshi for the good of his company.
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For decades, the Japanese government has been trying, and largely failing, to set limits on work and on overtime. The problem of karoshi became prevalent enough to warrant its own word in the boom years of the late 1970s, as the number of Japanese men working more than 60 hours a week soared. Thirty years later, overtime rules remain so nebulous and so weakly enforced that the United Nations’ International Labor Organization has described Japan as a country with no legal limits on the practice. The consequences show up not only in claims for death and disability from overwork but in suicides attributed to “fatigue from work.”
November 28, 2011
Brighton Beach
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” – Susan Sontag
Brighton Beach next to the Pier © Stewart Weir 2005
November 26, 2011
English Football Culture
A Brighton & Hove Albion football fan at Torquay United 1st January 1997. © Stewart Weir 1997
Prior to the beginning of Brighton & Hove Albion football club’s 1995/96 season I was asked to produce the action images for the club programme. In July 95′ I approached the club about the idea to produce a behind the scenes photo documentary about the club and the answer was yes.
I began documenting behind the scenes events within the club’s home The Goldstone Ground, on the training pitch and at home and away games. Within weeks of starting the photo documentary the club fell into a crisis both on and off the pitch. I was eventually banned from entering the ground but still managed to get into every game with the help of the club’s staff who were against their tyrannical employers.
The story that evolved over 2 seasons from 1995 to 1997 was beyond anything Hollywood could have dreamed up. I was lucky enough to fall into a story and document it in a way that had never been done before about an English football club. A book called More Than Ninety Minutes resulted and a series of exhibitions throughout the UK. I’m presently looking at the idea of doing a 2nd book of images from the archive of 7,000 negatives (the image above is unpublished). 200 images made it into the first book so I have a lot of editing to do.
Fourteen years later the club has a new owner and a new world class stadium. But the story began in 1995 and was it not for the club’s fans back then they would not have a team to support now.
