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Colin Jackson; Linford Christie

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Colin Jackson; Linford Christie

by Jillian Edelstein
bromide print, 1993
11 5/8 in. x 11 1/2 in. (295 mm x 292 mm) image size
Purchased, 1994
Photographs Collection
NPG x45385

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  • Jillian Edelstein (1957-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 120 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

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This photograph of the training partners and friends Colin Jackson and Linford Christie captures them at their professional peak. Christie was the reigning 100m champion of the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games and Jackson had recently set a world record time for the 110m hurdles and, with Christie, a new European record for the 4 x 100m relay. The photograph captures the playful mood of the shoot in the VIP lounge at Heathrow Airport moments before the pair boarded a plane.

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Current affairs

The Conservative Party is attacked in the media for 'sleaze'. Two MP's resign over sex scandals, two over the 'cash-for-questions affair', and one dies in bizarre and embarrassing circumstances. Journalist Max Clifford was responsible for exposing many of the scandals.
Black teenager Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racist attack by a gang of white youths.

Art and science

Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize for her sculpture House; a concrete cast of the inside of a Victorian terraced house in East London. Controversy was caused by the work itself, by it winning the Turner Prize, and by the decision of Tower Hamlets council to demolish the sculpture.
British inventor James Dyson revolutionises the vacuum cleaner with his eponymous design.

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Czechoslovakia is divided into two countries: the Slovak Republic (Slovakia) and the Czech Republic. The division was peaceful and democratic and so became known as the 'Velvet Divorce', recalling the 'Velvet Revolution' of 1989 by which Communism in Czechoslovakia was overthrown through peaceful mass demonstrations.

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