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Street scenes at Glastonbury marketPhotos by Palden Jenkins, January 2006 |
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Glastonbury street market happens on Tuesday mornings. Very much a visitor-oriented town, events like the market bring the locals onto the streets. This photo-collage shows Glastonbury's ordinary folk doing an ordinary, chilly Tuesday in January 2006. Even though I know only some of these people, it's remarkably living in a town like Glastonbury, where these faces become part of the wallpaper of your life, in a softly tribal way. We are each other's people, and over the years we watch each other grow older. Old ones disappear, and young ones progress from buggies to bikes to cars. And life moves on.
Each of these people is an individual with character, and yet history eats us for breakfast and we are soon forgotten, lost in time. A thousand years ago, a market existed on this spot, and we have forgotten those people too. The relentless activity of humanity carries on. A local life in a small town. Yet, people I know in these pictures come from Thailand, Morocco, Kenya, Germany, and others have spent parts of their lives in India, Costa Rica, Sweden, Indonesia and USA. St Dunstan, the Abbot of Glastonbury and a wise man of 1,100 years ago, would have raised an eyebrow at that. |
Palden Jenkins
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