Tag archives for John Cole
Paul Joy: A Boxer Who Went to Sea
JOHN COLE The name Paul Joy is well known in Hastings, especially in the Old Town. Paul has been a fisherman here for most of his adult life and he…
A Krapp Life
JOHN COLE Academy Award Director nominee Stockard Channing (remember Grease?) brings her production of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape to the Kino Theatre on 13 November. The monologue is a journey…
SALTY DOGS
JOHN COLE on his new book Sea Dogs: Hastings Fishermen and Their Companions When I first began laying out the photos for the book Generations: Hastings Fishing Families, my wife…
Five Glorious Years of the Bavard Bar!
It’s a fairly unique format. Every month, on the third Wednesday at the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards, three people take to the stage and share their passions for around 15…
Calling all Art Hounds
As everyone knows, the art and popular culture market is a fickle one. Often seeming irrational. Why, for example, is George Formby’s banjo-ukelele worth more than Noel Gallagher’s hand-written lyric…
14 Months of Solitude
Gareth Stevens previews an upcoming group show by four Hastings based photographers at Electro Studios Project Space. Many local artists from across the range of creative endeavours have alchemically developed…
Fishing Families Caught on Camera
Gareth Stevens reviews John Cole’s book of photographs: Generations: Hastings Fishing ; The great photojournalist Robert Capa once said that “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough”.…
Free Photography Workshops for Carers
By Sonya, Care for Carers Care for the Carers are inviting carers in East Sussex to take part in photography workshops in August and September 2021. Beginner, intermediate and experienced…
Fishing For A New Future
Gareth Stevens investigates the state of the Hastings & Rye fishing fleet Once you set aside the obvious historical battle that is at the heart of our town’s outward identity,…
Photohastings – Part 1
By Mia L Photohastings is a creative photographic umbrella, with a self-initiated remit to develop creative and cultural opportunities for photographers in Hastings and St Leonards. Photohastings – Part 1…
Photohastings Season of Photography 2019
Press Release provided by Photohastings. The Photohastings Season of Photography for this year is well underway. Two of the critically acclaimed ‘Photology’ photography talks at Printworks in Claremont, Hastings have…
Observer Building Opening Its Doors With ‘People and Place’ Exhibition
The landmark Observer Building (OB) is set to open its doors to the town for the first time since its closure in 2016 as a proud partner of the prestigious…
Fishing For Generations
John Cole records over twenty years of Hastings’ fishing industry. By Emma Harwood Hastings’ beach-launched fishing fleet is arguably the heart and soul of this seaside town and the lifeblood…
On Life, Peril, Community And Photography
A conversation with Cathy Teesdale By Caf Fean I cheated death in the summer of my second year while studying English Literature at Exeter. I was trying to scramble down…
Our Man in Moscow
John Cole and Simone Witney Many of us know John Cole’s iconic photos of Hastings fishermen, a product of his close relationship with them, but his sympathies are international. This…
Compromised Perceptions, by Thomas Denman
Work by Annie Rae (left) and John Cole (right) This three-artist exhibition invites us to contemplate the value and fragility of our nervous system—the normal functioning of which many of…
A Family Business
John Cole Twenty-two year old Alex Bartlett has been in the fish business on and off for more than eight years. Which is pretty amazing for someone who doesn’t particularly…