Interesting article in The Times today by Russell Jenkins about gang culture in Sheffield. It’s one of the few articles (that I have seen) that has looked at the issue from a cultural perspective. It was accompanied by a photograph by Jarek Bogdanowicz (strong horizontal lines punctuated by the corner of a building, contrast between the gaudy colours of the flowers and the muted clothes of the figures, but no sign of the “webbed gloves”).
The article discussed “repping”, gang use of social networking sites such as Bebo, use of guns rather than knives.
According to Journalisted this article is probably the longest piece Russell Jenkins has written for The Times.
Editor of The Times is James Harding (aged 38). Chief Executive of Bebo is Michael Birch (also aged 38). A Google Images search of Jarek Bogdanowicz only produced sport images - a few hockey photographs (one of which is very good) plus one image of “buildering”.
Another article (very different) by Russell Jenkins: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4183393.ece
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