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Published: 2 April 2009

Pick of the Indies

LUCY is a Soho transexual prostitute, and her daily routine of working the streets is one of the subjects a new set of short films explored this month at The Photographers Gallery.
It is showing a series of films by artist Jordan Baseman. Using interviews with Soho faces, from the notorious to the anonymous, Bateman has spliced together some wild footage of the streets with these talking heads.
Lucy’s screen debut is in the film Dark is the Night, recorded over a six-month period in dimly lit streets and set against Lucy’s narration.
Other films include a study of the way the area has become synonymous with well-heeled and camp men. In The Dandy Doctrine (A Delightful Illusion), Baseman interviews the writer, artist and self-described dandy Sebastian Horsley. Horsley discusses his philosophies and how Soho epitomises these ideals.
Finally, activist Alan Wakeman describes his first sexual encounter in rather striking detail. He lifts the lid on what it meant to be gay and in Soho in the 1960s.

* Exhibition dates: April 24-June 14 at the The Photographers Gallery, 16–18 Ramillies Street, W1.

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