the ballad of vicki and jake
photo gallery #2

with the gang.
Vicki, Paul, Brad and I have just left the Eclipse after drinking and filming.
We are heading into “the pit”, a roundabout that marked for us the separation between St. Paul’s, one of the most
underprivileged neighbourhoods in Britain, and the city center of Bristol, where Ken and I lived during filming.

outside the eclipse, day.
This photo is in the last series of photos that Ken took of Vicki and me.
Our expressions, our body language, the black and white background, the empty beer glass…
It says things that would be so difficult to describe in words.

skateboarding in the pit.
Ken’s photos capture defining moments for the film’s subjects, like this one taken just before Jake’s twelfth birthday.
Jake is balancing, almost flying in “the pit” , a place that for us is filled with such symbolism.