Category: Islam

  • Displaces. A photo-project in the Calais ‘Jungle’.

    Displaces. A photo-project in the Calais ‘Jungle’.

    This mysterious photograph of the Calais ‘Jungle’ is the work of 18 year-old Esyas (his name has been changed), an artist from Eritrea. He is taking part in the Displaces photo project set up by Prof. Corinne Squire. I’ve been working alongside Gideon Mendel, teaching photography and editing the results of a two day workshop.…

  • Darbishire Place, Whitechapel

    Darbishire Place, Whitechapel

    An ongoing commission for Niall McLaughlin Architects: to photograph the flats and residents in this Stirling Prize shortlisted Peabody block. Much architectural photography has an arid and ghostly or post apocalyptic feel. The buildings are presented without people, in creepily perfect weather and light, as though they subsist for and of themselves. We are hard-wired to respond…