{"id":339,"date":"2025-05-12T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/?p=339"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:58:39","slug":"thames-valley-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/photography\/2025\/05\/12\/thames-valley-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames Valley Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This PHOTOBOOK WITH POEMS will be about my hometown of Didcot, Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a Working-Class boy from a council estate in Didcot, Oxfordshire which is the wrong side of the tracks from Oxford and all it stands for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a kind of auto-biography of myself and my hometown of Didcot where I lived for a good part of 30 years. The title is a reference to the love of country music that my family had instilled in me from a young age and the experience of hearing Dolly Parton at full volume drifting across the estate from the working-men\u2019s club on a saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would like to publish the poems alongside a sequence of photographs I took in 2011-12 for a multimedia project called TRACK<\/a> which almost but not quite became a PHD in 2018\u2026

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Read the poems here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?page_id=2693<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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