Bank Holiday Picture Special

POGUS CAESAR SNAPS INTO ACTION

26-05-2008

Birmingham photographer and film-maker Pogus Caesar has a major retrospective at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until July 12, but he’s been dusting down his prints and wants to share a few special snaps with The Stirrer readers.

Check out his gallery here.

There are images of the actress Julies Christie leaning against the then uncompleted ICC in 1991; Cathy Tyson in London (1985) taking a breather during the filming of Mona Lisa, and Timothy West in 1989.

Other actors caught on camera include Vas Blackwood, Central TV Birmingham 1985, Wil Johnson, The Drum, Birmingham 2003 and Red Dwarf star Craig Charles: Alum Rock, Birmingham 1985.

Pogus’ own screen career is represented by a group shot of the 'Here and Now' presenters from the 1980s. At the time it was Central Television's multi cultural flagship, broadcast at 2pm on Sunday.

Pogus is on the left of the top row with Anjali Singh, Hilary Minster aka as General Von Klinkerhoffen from BBC Alloo Alloo. Bottom Row: Vera Gilbert, Zia Moyheddin, Paula Ahuwalia.

Then there’s a couple of shots of Paul Robeson Jr visiting the Afro Caribbean Resource Centre, Dudley Road 1986, and paying a trip with his wife to Birmingham Council House in 1986.

And how about Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, at ACRC, Dudley Road, Winson Green, Birmingham 1986, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu at Nelson Mandela School, Sparkbrook, Birmingham 1989

There’s also the Rev Al Sharpton in Birmingham 1991 (he visited Holte School in Lozells), and finally playwright, poet and controversialist Caryl Philips who went to school in Brum, visiting Alpha Tower in 1987.