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So What
Artist: Crass
Song: So what
Album: Feeding the 5,000
Model: Rich
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire UK


Notes:-
By far the biggest influence on my life was the punk band, Crass. Musically they were awful (by their own admission). Lyrically they were absolutely brilliant for a young adolescent who was seeking meaning and understanding of the big wide world. They were arrogant, afraid of no one and hated pretty much everything that our society was built on, especially the government of the time. Thatcher. They also hated religion and authority. For me, who’d been brought up in C of E schools and never really quite ‘got it’, they were gobsmackingly incredible.

Here was a bunch of people that dared to question everything. Not only that but they had an ideology to support it. I was hooked and thirsty for more. This, their first album, blew me away quite literally. I can still recite the numerous lyrics (mantras?) like I was 14 years old. This song particularly caught me with its anti-Christian, angry rhetoric. I abhor all religion and this band helped me form opinions on many things but above all, have made me question everything, no matter who’s telling me. No matter their position of ‘authority’ or standing. They made it ok for me to not only dislike certain accepted norms but to hate them and fight back. For that reason alone, I love Crass to this day and thank them from the base of my being. I wanted to make this photo about the line from the song I most love which is:- “So what, so what, so what if Jesus died on the cross, so what about the fucker, I don’t give a toss” but I didn’t think they fit the image.

This is the only shot to date that was taken without a lyric in mind. When I thought about it two years after I took it, I realised it was perfect for the line and summed up my feelings totally. I took it after yet another bombing in the Middle East in the name of somebody’s ridiculous icon. Innocent lives taken and destroyed in the name of someone’s fucking fantasy world. I used to get really angry about these things, now I’m just sad at the ludicrousness of it all. This shot was taken to depict my bewilderment that somebody’s centuries old fairy story results in hundreds of thousands of needless slaughters a year. We are quite frankly a pathetic race and I’ll never get used to it. I know it’s not PC to say it out loud but hey, blow me up too eh, there’s a great solution?

So What
Artist: Crass
Song: So what
Album: Feeding the 5,000
Model: Rich
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire UK


Notes:-
By far the biggest influence on my life was the punk band, Crass. Musically they were awful (by their own admission). Lyrically they were absolutely brilliant for a young adolescent who was seeking meaning and understanding of the big wide world. They were arrogant, afraid of no one and hated pretty much everything that our society was built on, especially the government of the time. Thatcher. They also hated religion and authority. For me, who’d been brought up in C of E schools and never really quite ‘got it’, they were gobsmackingly incredible.

Here was a bunch of people that dared to question everything. Not only that but they had an ideology to support it. I was hooked and thirsty for more. This, their first album, blew me away quite literally. I can still recite the numerous lyrics (mantras?) like I was 14 years old. This song particularly caught me with its anti-Christian, angry rhetoric. I abhor all religion and this band helped me form opinions on many things but above all, have made me question everything, no matter who’s telling me. No matter their position of ‘authority’ or standing. They made it ok for me to not only dislike certain accepted norms but to hate them and fight back. For that reason alone, I love Crass to this day and thank them from the base of my being. I wanted to make this photo about the line from the song I most love which is:- “So what, so what, so what if Jesus died on the cross, so what about the fucker, I don’t give a toss” but I didn’t think they fit the image.

This is the only shot to date that was taken without a lyric in mind. When I thought about it two years after I took it, I realised it was perfect for the line and summed up my feelings totally. I took it after yet another bombing in the Middle East in the name of somebody’s ridiculous icon. Innocent lives taken and destroyed in the name of someone’s fucking fantasy world. I used to get really angry about these things, now I’m just sad at the ludicrousness of it all. This shot was taken to depict my bewilderment that somebody’s centuries old fairy story results in hundreds of thousands of needless slaughters a year. We are quite frankly a pathetic race and I’ll never get used to it. I know it’s not PC to say it out loud but hey, blow me up too eh, there’s a great solution?