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The Dangerous Sports Club Exhibition – Daffyd Jones

3 November 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Free

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The Dangerous Sports Club was co-founded by David Kirk, Chris Baker, Ed Hulton and Alan Weston.

‘The Dangerous Sports Club, a group of adventurers and extreme sports pioneers based in Oxford and London, were active from the late 1970s for about ten years, during which they developed modern bungee jumping and experimented with a variety of other innovative sporting activities’

Like skateboarding with the bulls in Pamplona or  skiing a grand piano down St.Moritz. This exhibition is curated by  Dafydd Jones and includes his extraordinary photographs,  vintage originals, as well as other images from Kirks collection, taken before Dafydd started documentation of the likes of Hugo and Hubie below on the skiing piano.

Surreal Ski Race, box of prints. 30 ten by eight fibre prints of the Dangerous Sports club ski race that took place in St. Moritz annually for three years in the eighties.
Surreal Ski Race, box of prints. 30 ten by eight fibre prints of the Dangerous Sports club ski race that took place in St. Moritz annually for three years in the eighties. by Dafydd Jones.

If you would like to know more about the charismatic characters this is a start The Muddled Legacy of Oxford University’s Dangerous Sports Club | Vanity Fair

Dafydd Jones, award winning Photographer, has been shooting the rich for 40years for the likes of Tatler His book Oxford The last Hurrah was published in 2020.

 

www.dafjones.com

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Date:
3 November 2021
Time:
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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