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22nd September 2011, 03:07 PM
Captured on our streets by a foreign lens, shaming images that turned Britain into a laughing stock
By Robert Hardman (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Robert+Hardman)
Last updated at 4:22 PM on 22nd September 2011
They look like images you might find in some depressing police dossier.
Here, in vivid detail, is a squalid portrait of binge-drinking Britain. Some of the more incapacitated specimens are in mid-vomit. A few have simply passed out.
Tequila-fuelled young women strike crude poses that will (or should) mortify them in the sober light of day. More worryingly, one or two are unconscious on the pavement, dangerously vulnerable in their pathetic state.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE54C200000578-266_964x610.jpg Left out with the trash: A woman apparently incapable of standing lies defenceless on the streets of Cardiff
One image —too disgusting to print here —shows one triumphal inebriate male advancing on a group of sozzled young woman exposing himself.
The scenes were all captured in Cardiff, in the area around St Mary Street and neighbouring ‘chip alley’. But similar scenes are being played out in town centres all over Britain every weekend.
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Yet there was no sense of concern or revulsion the other day when this collage of shame was unveiled before an audience of 1,000 people. Instead, they leapt to their feet, applauding, roaring with laughter and crying ‘Bravo!’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE4A1A00000578-340_964x625.jpg In a poor light: Although this picture is shrouded in a green glow, the party girl pictured is feeling greener
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE3FD800000578-527_470x642.jpg
Sorry sight: Revellers on 'Chippy Lane' abandon all dignity as the clock strikes 2am
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE545200000578-76_964x636.jpg All modesty abandoned: A woman in towering heels is helped by a policeman and friend
For, in the eyes of the experts and professionals gathered at the International Festival of Photojournalism in the French city of Perpignan, this portfolio of work —entitled Cardiff After Dark —was a beautifully crafted and realistic portrait of life in modern Britain.
The next time we scoff at, say, the chauvinism of the French or the hysterics of the Italians, it is worth remembering the sort of stereotypes which are applied to Britain.
Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz, 34, has been capturing nocturnal scenes in Cardiff — where he was previously a student — for the past five years.
The results speak for themselves.
Dakowicz admits that he would be unable to produce images like this in his home town of Bialystok in Poland.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE42A000000578-974_964x640.jpg Thigh high: One man tackles some railings wearing a fetching purple frock, fishnets and pink feather hat while carrying his handbag
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE412A00000578-955_470x662.jpg
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Modesty: An image that would make a pole dancer blush (left) and a happy couple exchange phone numbers
By Robert Hardman (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Robert+Hardman)
Last updated at 4:22 PM on 22nd September 2011
They look like images you might find in some depressing police dossier.
Here, in vivid detail, is a squalid portrait of binge-drinking Britain. Some of the more incapacitated specimens are in mid-vomit. A few have simply passed out.
Tequila-fuelled young women strike crude poses that will (or should) mortify them in the sober light of day. More worryingly, one or two are unconscious on the pavement, dangerously vulnerable in their pathetic state.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE54C200000578-266_964x610.jpg Left out with the trash: A woman apparently incapable of standing lies defenceless on the streets of Cardiff
One image —too disgusting to print here —shows one triumphal inebriate male advancing on a group of sozzled young woman exposing himself.
The scenes were all captured in Cardiff, in the area around St Mary Street and neighbouring ‘chip alley’. But similar scenes are being played out in town centres all over Britain every weekend.
More...
Yet there was no sense of concern or revulsion the other day when this collage of shame was unveiled before an audience of 1,000 people. Instead, they leapt to their feet, applauding, roaring with laughter and crying ‘Bravo!’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE4A1A00000578-340_964x625.jpg In a poor light: Although this picture is shrouded in a green glow, the party girl pictured is feeling greener
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE415A00000578-556_470x642.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE3FD800000578-527_470x642.jpg
Sorry sight: Revellers on 'Chippy Lane' abandon all dignity as the clock strikes 2am
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE545200000578-76_964x636.jpg All modesty abandoned: A woman in towering heels is helped by a policeman and friend
For, in the eyes of the experts and professionals gathered at the International Festival of Photojournalism in the French city of Perpignan, this portfolio of work —entitled Cardiff After Dark —was a beautifully crafted and realistic portrait of life in modern Britain.
The next time we scoff at, say, the chauvinism of the French or the hysterics of the Italians, it is worth remembering the sort of stereotypes which are applied to Britain.
Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz, 34, has been capturing nocturnal scenes in Cardiff — where he was previously a student — for the past five years.
The results speak for themselves.
Dakowicz admits that he would be unable to produce images like this in his home town of Bialystok in Poland.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE42A000000578-974_964x640.jpg Thigh high: One man tackles some railings wearing a fetching purple frock, fishnets and pink feather hat while carrying his handbag
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE412A00000578-955_470x662.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/22/article-2040260-0DDE4E0600000578-638_470x662.jpg
Modesty: An image that would make a pole dancer blush (left) and a happy couple exchange phone numbers