The Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century. This series recounts the grief of the mothers of missing soldiers who live in hope of finally seeing their sons again—or at least holding a body to bury.
Emma Lewell-Buck MP lends her support to the #HundredHeroines campaign by tabling an Early Day Motion.
Exhibition: Zero Tolerance. Working to end men’s violence against women. Photography exhibition at Stills, Cockburn Street, exploring forms of violence against women that are still misunderstood, hidden and unacknowledged by mainstream society.
Through her phone, Nancy captures scenes of beauty and the everyday lives of her children and grandchildren that she wouldn’t otherwise be able to see with the limits of her naked eye.
Through the power of photography, I believe that we can change the public’s fear of sharks to respect, and maybe even love.
Seeing Julia Fullerton-Batten’s work is like experiencing time come to a pause. Each of her images capture cinema’s scale and sweep, funnelled to a singular defining moment and given depth by an obsession with perfect detail. Her work conveys the intimate truth of its subject, its essence. None more so than in her latest project, Old Father Thames, in which the German artist became so engrossed that she joined a rowing club to feel closer to the river’s ebb and flow.
I understood their feelings of pain, of loss, of loneliness, of helplessness — and eventually, of wanting to use the traumatic experiences to help others. I could never have predicted how much the women and their stories would affect me. We ended up supporting each other. We continue to do so.
In 2012 when I stood in front of my lens fully nude for the first time, I had a radical change in self-perception. I realized for two decades I had apologized for my body.
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