Come Here To Me!

Dust off, scan up and send on your photos to Garry if you haven't already!

WHERE WERE YOU? is a visual social document of young Dublin. The book is a photographic journey through five decades of the city’s youth cultures, street styles and teenage life, from the early 1950s to the end of the 1990s.

After four years of hard work, Garry O’Neill, a close friend of CHTM! has announced that he will finally publish his long awaited book Where Were You? in September 2011. It will then be independently released through Niall McCormack’s Hi Tone in a limited edition hard-back of two thousand copies.

All the material was sourced over four years or more of constant advertising to the general public through posters and flyers, and also from photographers, newspapers and books.

Garry has divided the book up into four chapters
1. 1950s and 1960s
2. 1970s
3. 1980s
4. 1990

Each chapter will also include a collection of memorabilia, made up from newspaper and magazine articles, ticket studs, club flyers, ads, membership cards etc.

The material sourced for the project covered roughly the 14 to 23 year old age groups. The photographs range from individual or crowd shots, taken at or outside gigs, clubs, discos, pubs etc, to scenes shot in streets, houses and parks.

In more exciting news, it has been announced that Sinead Ni Bhroin and Maya Derrington (Still Films productions; Pyjama Girls, His and Hers and The Pipe) are going to be teaming up with Garry to produce an accompanying feature length documentary. They’ve an innovative distribution campaign for the release of the book and film, and even have discussed the possibilities of releasing a soundtrack of Dublin bands to accompany this book.

To help fund the research and development of the project and the completion of a short documentary, which will be used to secure funding for a feature length documentary, the team have asked people to contribute to the project via Fund It. The Punky Reggae Party donated €50 today.