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Katherine Green @ Tokarska Gallery
1948 Olympians
Exhibition: June 21 – July 21, 2012
For the past 6 years, photographer Katherine Green, has been meeting and documenting the 1948 British Olympic Team. Her images and oral histories are presented for the first time in a UK touring exhibition and publication.
1948 was the last time the Olympics were held in London. The contrast is stark; London was recovering from war, athletes were truly amateur and therefore not paid. Athletes trained on rations whilst working full-time and raising children, they had to take unpaid leave to compete and many had to hand sew their own kits. When the Games were over, they returned to work and carried on as normal.
These images of the athletes that took part that year tell a story of a different age. For some shown here, sport became their lives, but for many it was a past time that practicalities meant they could not continue.
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