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Front Yard
The front yard is as much a metaphor as it is a space. Homes reflect the material successes of their inhabitants, their aesthetic tastes, and concrete the ties that bind family, lovers, and friends. When the shelter-in-place order was announced in March and time came to a proverbial standstill, I turned to my community to make portraits of people in their front yards.
A Rural Lifeline
Joanne Coates is a photographic storyteller from a working-class background.
Based between Yorkshire and Scotland, she depicts everyday stories with a
documentary approach. Apart from this, Coates has also done work in the
commercial sector with clients including the BBC, Vice, Financial Times, The
Guardian, and more.
Coronavirus: A Rural Lifeline in North Yorkshire shows how rural communities,
away from the hub of the big city, managed to cope with isolation when social
distancing became the n
Fire Corps
The concept (and practice) of voluntary work brings out the best of people.
Volunteers not only don’t get paid, they also give their time, passion and
effort to a cause that they believe is worth fighting for. Johan Brooks
presents us with the story of the Fire Corps — groups
Kibera
Edwin Ndeke’s body of work focuses on Kibera — one of the largest urban
settlements in the world which is situated on the periphery of Nairobi,
Kenya’s capital with a population of approximately 2.5 million. Poverty,
disease and crime are not uncommon when discussing Kenya and Africa in
Metropole
Once the Metropole or mother city at the heart of a vast global empire, London is now the dominion to a new world power. Subject to the flows of global finance and whims of markets, the city has become little more than an investment opportunity for multinational developers and overseas investors. Metropole records the brutally disorientating effects of this by documenting these legions of new corporate and residential blocks as they are constructed and occupied.
The Sunshiners. Code Red in Green China
Plastic pollution may seem to be something that doesn’t have a monumental
impact on our daily lives right now, but issues like climate change and
pollution do not take a gradual curve. They do not have to slowly
deteriorate, kindly giving us enough time to notice that something is
Found in Nature
Barry Rosenthal brings our attention to this pertinent issue. His pictures of colourful plastic packaging of crisps, chocolate and other snacks are reminiscent of Andreas Gursky — a startling number of objects creating a pool of words and colours to a dizzying effect. They are found man-made objects that the artist has collected and photographed.
Case 3181
Nieves Mingueza is a Spanish documentary photographer whose work bridges
the gap between the conceptual, personal and political. She often works as
a multimedia artist using images as well as text, collage, video and
installation. In her own words, Mingueza “explores and activates the
archives to address social and gender
Noora
A person’s own life ultimately comes to a screeching halt when their child is born. They are no longer fully free or the center of their own universe as there is that tiny human whose creation they were responsible for and who cannot take care of their own basic needs.
Chance Encounters in The Valley of Lights
Chance Encounters in the Valley of Lights tells the story of an unsolved extraterrestrial case from 1980s Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Photographer Rik Moran combines original imagery with never-before-seen archival material to investigate the possible alien abduction of PC Alan Godfrey. In illuminating one of small-town England’s most unlikely protagonists, Chance Encounters unearths another other-worldly mystery along the way.