From: Max Value Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:21:53 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Fixed much, added riders floating pictures X-Git-Url: https://git.ozva.co.uk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7588fd748e400c019b252150f549c84fad9930fe;p=chester Fixed much, added riders floating pictures --- diff --git a/about/index.html b/about/index.html index 15aa618..70961ca 100644 --- a/about/index.html +++ b/about/index.html @@ -75,17 +75,18 @@
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+ src="/media/photos_3840/headshot.jpg" /> - My name is Chester Jones, and I am a photographer specialising in documentary photography. Over my career, I've gained a broad range of experience from moving image, to mixed media works, to more traditional documentary photography. The latter is best exemplified in my ongoing project taking portraits and documenting the lives of Manchester's hyper-exploited delivery drivers.

- I dabble in various types of photography and video-making, but my real passion lies in the social and political side of things. For the most part, my creative practice has always spoken to social issues, something I plan to keep up throughout my career. My hopes being that I can continue to produce documentary projects working with marginalised communities. Finding ways to be creative whilst working on these topical projects, projects that require sincerity and respect, is a big challenge but something I hope to keep building on. This drive to create unique and engaging work that creates positive representations and counter-narratives of social issues is at the core of my career. - -
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+ My name is Chester Jones, and I am a photographer specialising in documentary photography. Over my career, I've gained a broad range of experience from moving image, to mixed media works, to more traditional documentary photography. The latter is best exemplified in my ongoing project taking portraits and documenting the lives of Manchester's hyper-exploited delivery drivers. +

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+ I dabble in various types of photography and video-making, but my real passion lies in the social and political side of things. For the most part, my creative practice has always spoken to social issues, something I plan to keep up throughout my career. My hopes being that I can continue to produce documentary projects working with marginalised communities. Finding ways to be creative whilst working on these topical projects, projects that require sincerity and respect, is a big challenge but something I hope to keep building on. This drive to create unique and engaging work that creates positive representations and counter-narratives of social issues is at the core of my career. +

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Email - chejones.photos@gmail.com

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Instagram - @chesterrjones

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LinkedIn - Chester Jones

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@chesterrjones
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LinkedIn
Chester Jones
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Through my BA degree in photography, I have gained experience and confidence in a broad range of creative outputs from moving image, to mixed media works, to more traditional documentary photography. My passion lies in social documentary work, and through this I have gained skills in working in uncontrolled, fast paced environments and in making those I am working with/documenting feel comfortable. Outside of this, I have ample experience organising, curating and installing exhibitions of both my own work and that of others. I am primarily seeking opportunities in photography, art gallery curation and installation, and in socially engaged projects. -

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Experience

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Impressions Gallery Bradford 2022 - Contributor and co-curator of "Through Our Lens" group photography exhibition.

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Impressions Gallery Bradford 2022
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Contributor and co-curator of "Through Our Lens" group photography exhibition.
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Saan1 Gallery Manchester 2023 - Contributor and lead organiser of "Mirage" group photography exhibition.

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Saan1 Gallery Manchester 2023
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Contributor and lead organiser of "Mirage" group photography exhibition.
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Le Blanc Fine Art Saxby 2024 - Promotional photographer for sculpture workshop.

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Le Blanc Fine Art Saxby 2024
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Promotional photographer for sculpture workshop.
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Collaboration with GROKE 2024 - Promotional and behind-the-scenes photographer.

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Collaboration with GROKE 2024
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Promotional and behind-the-scenes photographer.
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'Earl's Boy' film 2024 - Promotional and behind-the-scenes photographer.

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'Earl's Boy' film 2024
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Promotional and behind-the-scenes photographer.
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'Nosebleed' film 2025 - Co-writer alongside Arthur Whelan.

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'Nosebleed' film 2025
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Co-writer alongside Arthur Whelan.
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University of Salford Degree Show Committee 2025 - Member of the degree show planning committee, helping to organise, plan and fundraise.

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University of Salford Degree Show Committee 2025
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Member of the degree show planning committee, helping to organise, plan and fundraise.
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Education

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Further Education - University of Salford, Photography BA Hons

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Further Education
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University of Salford, Photography BA Hons
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Further Education - Denys Salt Sixth Form

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Further Education
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Denys Salt Sixth Form
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Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethics - A

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Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethics
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Media Studies - A

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Media Studies
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English Language - A

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English Language
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Cotton Town

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Cotton Town

Manchester was the world's first industrial city. Dubbed "Cottonopolis" it was the economic hub of the British Empire and grew symbiotically alongside the Transatlantic Slave Trade. As plantations in the America's expanded, more and more mills were built in the city. diff --git a/personal/memorabilia/index.html b/personal/memorabilia/index.html index 80823f0..3c11752 100644 --- a/personal/memorabilia/index.html +++ b/personal/memorabilia/index.html @@ -50,35 +50,35 @@

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Memorabilia

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Daylight Robbery

- Some told me that they were happy with their jobs. Most of the time these were the younger Riders, relatively new to the job, perhaps working parttime, who seemed to not be as experienced or as worn out as the older Riders. The general consensus amongst those Riders who had been working longer was that the job is "shit." On the first day of this project I spoke to a Pakistani man who had come to the UK a few years ago as a business student hoping to start a business here after graduating. He told me about the low pay and dangerous conditions, then summed it all up in one phrase: "bad life." This man had come here with a vision of the UK in his mind that turned out to be very far from the truth. Now, he told me, he feels trapped here in a situation no better than the one he left behind. + Some told me that they were happy with their jobs. Most of the time these were the younger Riders, relatively new to the job, perhaps working parttime, who seemed to not be as experienced or as worn out as the older Riders. The general consensus amongst those Riders who had been working longer was that the job is "shit." +

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+ On the first day of this project I spoke to a Pakistani man who had come to the UK a few years ago as a business student hoping to start a business here after graduating. He told me about the low pay and dangerous conditions, then summed it all up in one phrase: "bad life." This man had come here with a vision of the UK in his mind that turned out to be very far from the truth. Now, he told me, he feels trapped here in a situation no better than the one he left behind.

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The same night I met Dawit, I also spoke to a man called Sam. I told him he had the same name as my Dad and he smiled. Sam had been working as a Rider for six years and the first thing he said when I asked him about the job was "its shit." He told me about how the pay had gotten dramatically worse over time, especially since the pandemic and that he now has to work between nine and twelve hours a day when he used to only work six to eight. When Sam began to speak about the dangers of the job, his eyes started to shine and well up. He told me, as I'd heard from Dawit, that it was common to have accidents and crashes up to four times a day, and that many people die on the job. But for Sam this fact was incredibly personal; over the six years he'd been working as a rider he told me that three of his friends had died in car crashes. Three people dead, yet the job remained the same he told me, just as dangerous if not more so now that wages are lower, and competition is higher. As far as the platforms are concerned, those people simply logged off and will be replaced by someone else. Sam went on to explain to me that it's not just the roads that are incredibly dangerous. Forced to work such late hours in the city centre, he and his friends constantly face the risk of street crime, from thefts to stabbings. This conversation had a profound impact on me that I would carry through the rest of the project. As I spoke to Sam and saw the emotion in his eyes, the cruelty and disregard of the Riders' companies was made tangible and vivid. I had known already that working for these companies was bad, but this interaction felt like bearing witness to the barbarity myself.

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False permits are not the only cause for suspicion and unease. Riders are also constantly facing trouble from the police, with bike seizures being a regular occurrence. Some electric bikes are rented out from legitimate companies. Some, however, are homemade, taped and strapped together with duct tape and bungee cord, built with batteries and motors salvaged or ordered online, some of which happen to be illegal in the UK. Lots of riders told me about the enormous setbacks that police seizures cause, with bikes costing up to a thousand pounds, if not more. Not only could that be months worth of wages gone with no reprieve, it also forces Riders to stop working for however long it takes them to get back up and running again. @@ -150,6 +178,7 @@ Haseen
"I hope to complete my postgraduate research successfully and return to my professional path as a doctor and researcher. My dream is to contribute to the medical field through both clinical practice and academic work. I want to be in a position where I can use my skills to make a difference-not just survive on side jobs. Eventually, I hope to secure a role in healthcare or research here in the UK, where my experience and education are recognized. This phase is difficult, but I believe it's just one chapter in a much bigger story." [3]. Migrant workers are especially vulnerable to predatory business practices, the kinds of practices that are used prolifically in another major development over the last couple of decades. The emergence in question is the 'platform economy', an expression that has a variety of definitions. The term 'platform' has been applied to countless digital giants from Facebook to Spotify to Uber, the main connection being their links to the 'gig economy'. This is a domain in which workers aren't necessarily considered workers; earning money from 'gigs' (think anything from voice acting to food deliveries) rather than from wages, a situation that lends itself nicely to the cost-cutting inclinations of big corporations.

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The term 'platform economy' has been refined by some scholars in regard to food delivery platforms such as Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat, which all operate in a similar way. The systems that these companies use are standards-based, meaning they're constantly collecting and analysing performance data; data that then gets fed into algorithms. These algorithms are used to remotely coordinate workers, centralising and consolidating the companies' control through that coordination, but whilst also positioning themselves as "simply empty vessels for hosting interactions that would otherwise be taking place"[4]. The reality is the opposite. These platforms do not necessarily meet existing needs, rather they are active producers of exchanges who also set the terms of their transactions and draw out extra value from their ever-growing piles of performance data.

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