Katherine Green, Road to 2012: A Local Story, View Tube - review - Arts

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Set inside the yellow landmark gallery overlooking the Olympic Park, it was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and runs parallel to its exhibition by photographers Emma Hardy and Finlay MacKay. Each shares the title Road to 2012.

Katherine Green's A Local Story explores how sport serves the community. Her subjects are the local youth and their engagement in table tennis, wheelchair athletics, watersports and boxing - reminders of how sport holds communities together.

Green's photographs are warm, trusting and honest.

They radiate calm satisfaction and lack the urgency exuding from the NPG's competitors and those responsible for staging the Olympics 2012.

Two bedraggled girl kayak-ists glow against the Docklands waters, while Rebecca concentrates
on training from her wheelchair cycle. Set against the open spaces of fields or water, they emphasise the physical freedoms sport can offer.

Repton Boxing Club has a history of supporting young working-class men and here they pose in scruffy rooms where success is posted on the walls. Morgan, tall, black and muscular, stands confident, gloves on, ready for success. These photographs give credence to the promise of the Olympic bid. "When people talk about legacy," she says, "these are the people who should benefit."

Until October 2. A Local Story, View Tube. theviewtube.co.uk. 020 7306 0055. To September 25, Changing Pace, National Portrait Gallery. npg.org.uk

Katherine Green, Road to 2012: A Local Story
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