St. Christopher/1969 is a collection of photographs taken by Mary Lowengard during 1969-70 while she was a sixth form student at St. Christopher School in Letchworth, Herts, England. She was 16 years old.
 
Founded in 1915, St. Christopher is a co-educational, progressive, and vegetarian boarding school for students ages 2 to 18. Though not a typical British boarding school, it offered a stark educational and cultural contrast to Lowengard's previous experiences at Connecticut public and private schools.
 
In anticipation of a visit to St. Christopher in the winter of 1999, Lowengard unearthed a box of negatives dating back to her days as a lower sixth former (approximately a high-school junior). She also found many of the prints, made when the film was first developed.
 
As a series, the pictures clearly represent the "children of the sixties" yet, at the same time, these faces and poses seem contemporary. What was important to Lowengard as a 16-year-old is transparent: there are few landscapes and no adults on the rolls of film.
 
The 24 photographs in St. Christopher/1969 consist of 8x10 full frame work prints; unretouched, and uncropped. They were printed by Michael Vitti, and were made available for viewing at the Nappa Gallery in May 2003.  For further information, contact Michael Vitti or Mary Lowengard at the link below.

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