I am sure there are many 'forum' related reasons why much of what is photographed has a sameness about it.
All well and good, but it strikes me that if the bulk of the event photography was in B&W or given a Sepia tinge it would be difficult to distinguish current shots from those of yester-year. Where is the youth?
Can there be a future without young people?
I have darted through the internet, like a muffled titter running through a courtroom, and found some instances where the concerns and the well-being of local young people are given prominence. Alas some of these 'projects' will raise some hollow laughter when viewed in light of recent remarks from Government.
We here cover history - on the grand and the not so grand scale, tourism, the bloody war(s) and politics - both local and national, but the future is our children, and the children of everybody else.
Can it be that we care (still) more about shop-keepers and hoteliers, about the pounds we don't have and about the pomp and dignity of the very few to the exclusion of the very people upon whom we all rely, the yet-young?
Work...
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Schemes-launched-Dover-tackle-district-youth/story-16106347-detail/story.html
Housing...
http://www.dover.gov.uk/housing/housing_needs/homelessness/youth_homelessness_strategy.aspx
Leisure...
http://www.kent.gov.uk/education_and_learning/youth_service/centres_and_projects/dover,_ashford_and_shepway.aspx