talk about the passion

‘Talk about the passion’ is the first solo exhibition of Zackary Mckraken’s street and social documentary photography, and it is an introduction to both the fun and playful side of his adventures using point and shoot cameras, as well as showcasing the various social projects that have been self published in his xerox photobooks or zines as we now commonly call it.

From playing witness to the recent rebirth and wild craze of the Toad in the Hole (East Sussex pub game tradition ) phenomenon, to his attempts at capturing the heart of his local youth boxing club and the story of its club owner. To bothering local fishermen to take him aboard on a shift at sea…and finally introducing his current and ongoing deeply personal portrait of the reconnection with his estranged mother and family in Jaywick, Essex, after forty years.

His work is, in his own words, “curious and scrappy, but I know there’s magic in there. And I wanted to grab it, bottle it up in a little vile of a photograph…just as I felt it in the very moment”