Belfast, The Steady Generation

Waterfront Concourse
Monday 5th July - Saturday 24th July
4 July Launch at QFT
Free

The City of Belfast has changed almost completely over the past thirty years; changes providing a welcome rebirth for a city emerging from a dark past.

Mark Scott, photographer, has documented what has not changed, but what has remained, and can still contribute to this rebirth in a positive way. Mark was introduced to members of a scooter club who agreed to let him photograph them over a period of months. He realised that these people, who still describe themselves as ‘Mods’ or simply ‘Scooterists’, have remained loyal to a revivalist lifestyle that endured through the ‘Troubles’ in Belfast. They remain intact today as a group.

These are mature men and women from differing backgrounds who have taken the best aspects from their teenage years, the friendship, styles and a way of life, and used these values to carry them through a conflict. Their fashions and the scooters that they ride have remained constant for a generation. They meet regularly to socialise, maintain friendships and support local charities through fund raising. This exhibition records a lifestyle that has endured both time and conflict.