Photographer Bill Owens: “This picture was taken in 1970. It would have been a Saturday morning. I was coming out of a neighbour’s house after having coffee, and I saw these three boys walking with their guns. They were about 15 or 16 and said, ‘You know, there’s no place to hunt any more because the suburbs have taken over all the hunting ground.’ They were pretending to go hunting because there were no jackrabbits left with the suburbs having taken over. They probably walked over to the rock quarries about two miles away to shoot the guns; that would be the extent of it. I don’t think the picture is intimidating. It’s just some boys walking along innocently. When I was a kid, we hunted and did all the things that children today can’t do. Today, if three boys were on the street with guns, the police could be there in three minutes and they would probably take them away, too. Society is crazy. So that’s probably the last time you’ll ever see kids walking with a gun in the suburbs. Before I worked on “Suburbia”, I’d been in the Peace Corps and lived overseas for a couple of years. When you leave, you come back and see your society fresh. I’m still fascinated by the whole suburban American dream that I photographed in the 1970s. I go to the mall now, I go to Ikea, I go to Costco… I love it all; it’s just very fascinating to me. I think everybody wants to move to suburbia. Anybody who makes any money wants a nice house, a washer and dryer, a freezer and two cars. As a photographer, you have to be born with that ability to take an honest and even satirical look at the world. But most photographers don’t do that, they glamourise. I don’t glamorise, I try to show it as it really is. I just did a book called Modern Moonshine Techniques (on distilling whisky and white dog), which is selling very well. I’m interested in all of that because I like to drink. I drink gin. I drink everything – beer, wine… I’m just curious how things work.” – as told to Karen Orton #dazedinstastory Taken from Dazed Sept 2010 ? #BillOwens

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