Photographer Ben Elwes is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From the book ‘Monday Market’.
Monday Market captures aspects of the type of rural market that is now less prevalent across England. G.A. Key started its market in Aylsham, Norfolk in 1955 and is still running every Monday on the same site although today better known as Keys Fine Art Auctioneers.
I followed Keys Monday market between 1990-2010, observing the patterns of the auction day, using my camera to trace the repetitions and the alterations each visit brought. It was this relationship between continuity and change that interested me, particularly as reflected through the people. I even started working with analogue cameras but later on was working digitally, so there is a progression with the photographic technology I used over that period.[…]
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