General Information
During the year 2000 D J Clark built a visual record of the Lancaster &
Morecambe district using photographs and information submitted by those that
feature in the pictures. The project was conducted in association with Lancaster
Museum and has been archived for future generations to look back at the district
at the turn of the new Millennium. For more information on the project visit
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J Clark.
Date:
June 28th 2000
Location: Liquid Night Club,
North Road
Photographer's Diary
Liquid Fashion Show
Dashing from the football game I had organised at school I changed in the Car Park opposite Liquid Night Club adorned a camera jacket and went to the door full of confidence. I had not sought permission to photograph this event but thought my presence would be welcomed as it might look the event seem more real. Obviously Lancaster was not the capital of fashion but this event was for charity put on by amateurs.
I was stopped at the door and told there was little chance of me shooting the event. I asked for the manager and was pleased to see the same man who had let me in on New Years Eve. "No problems" he said, "I liked the stuff you did at New Year" I was in. Too many middle aged women with too much make up crammed into the downstairs area of the club waiting to be let upstairs. The odd perfume and nail promotion was handed out by large skinhead bouncers before there was a rush to get to the best seats. I pushed in and got a place on the floor. This was my first ever catwalk shoot, but I remembered a visiting lecturer at Bolton saying "it's simple, get em as they walk up and as they walk back, that way you have all sides covered. I did that but also shot them as they paraded right in front of me. I laid films out on the floor and changed them at lightning sped.
It turned out to be sponsored mainly by one clothes and one lingerie shop, this was about all we saw, with a few dancers strutting their stuff in between. It was an amateur show but all were trying so hard to be professional, I am sure there was a few who had been in the business back stage. I remember little else as I madly shot everything that walked as this was to be a collection for the future - where else was I going to be able to collect a number of samples of underwear worn by Lancastrians in the year 2000.