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In 1965 Declan Gilroy of the Gilroy family album won a racehorse naming competition led by the Gillette company. The horse’s name was ‘Trouble for Stubble’, pictured here at an unknown racetrack. Trouble for Stubble was handed over to the Gilroy family in the Curragh, County Kildare.

It is easy to forget the wide and complex range of other uses that photography has, quite apart from the self-consciously aesthetic, which make up the large part of how most people produce or consume photographic images. Of course, there is also a considerable body of critical literature that describes how photography is tied up with repression and the ideologies of power. It would also be possible to read this photograph in a similarly negative way, but arguably a more rewarding approach is to consider how it speaks to (and about) a particular impulse - the photograph was made and kept, it was meaningful in some way. This picture is one element in a mosaic of social history that can and indeed should be read in “positive” terms.
- Darren Campion.


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