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© Billy Macrae
Talk
Billy Macrae: Recording Disorder
4 Jun 2015
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 19 Mann Island
- Liverpool Waterfront
- Liverpool
- L31BP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus station is at Liverpool ONE, but some buses drop off at the Pier Head, right next door to the gallery. Merseytravel has details of local bus services.
- By train We are 20 minutes walk from Lime Street station ' Liverpool's mainline railway station. James Street station, served by Wirral Line trains, is a two minute walk. Moorfields station, served by the Northern and Wirral Lines, is a five minute w
A free artist talk with Billy Macrae, as he discusses his experience of photographing the G20 riots – and how to best capture a mob without becoming part of it.
About
“The behavior of both police and protesters on that day (the 1st of April 2009) was so extreme, and the location that the most violent demonstrations happened (right outside the Bank of England, among neo-classical columns and banking logos) added to the drama. I had taken pictures at demonstrations before, but this was another level of intensity. During and after the demo, I found the process deeply affecting – indeed, quite scary. Angry scenes were playing out seemingly all around me, with blood being spilled in broad daylight. I almost felt like if these people managed to break into the Bank of England and RBS – two institutions at the core of British society – and set them on fire, all hell would break loose! Perhaps British society might even collapse. They didn’t manage it – the police held them back, and maybe they wouldn’t have done that anyway – but on that day, at the height of the financial crisis, something genuinely apocalyptic seemed possible to my young self.” – Billy Macrae
To book your place please ring +44 (0)151 236 6768 or email info@openeye.org.uk
