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Silver LiningsHeroinic Stories

Yasmin Balai

Silver Linings is an ongoing long term project that follows a group of homeless people, inhabiting underground central heating systems in the centre of Romania's capital, Bucharest. Life on the streets can be a very traumatising and an isolating experience, where forced prostitution, drug or sexual abuse and other forms of violence…
PlanetHeroines
11th December 2018
Descent into ChaosHeroinic Stories

Descent into Chaos

“I guess that photographing my own country’s decay put me in a position where I wasn’t able to take too much distance from the things and people I photographed. I often feel like by photographing them, their pain and struggle, I’m photographing a part of myself.”
Graeme Bell
10th December 2018
Mothers of patienceHeroinic StoriesIWD2024

Mothers of Patience

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.
Del Barrett
8th December 2018
Amanda PicotteHeroinic Stories

Amanda Picotte

“For the first time in modern history, survivors are being given space to come forward publicly with their stories and foster discussion on how to end rape culture. In the absence of this space, people often have had to heal in silence, privately processing the trauma they’ve endured.”
Graeme Bell
8th December 2018
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Natalie Lennard

Fine-art photographer Natalie Lennard has created Birth Undisturbed, a fictional narrative photography series that brings scenes of natural childbirth into cinematic fine-art tableaux. Spotlighting women of history from the Virgin Mary to the Queen, the series is partly inspired by the artist’s own experiences of birth, loss and motherhood.
PlanetHeroines
27th November 2018
Too Tired Project by Tara WrayHeroinic Stories

Tara Wray

My work is rooted in documentary surrealism. I'm drawn to intense natural light, small details, and use colour to evoke mood, atmosphere, and emotion. I'm compelled to document the mundane and absurd aspects of life, and animals, especially dogs.
Graeme Bell
26th November 2018
Too Many ManHeroinic Stories

Ellie Ramsden

Grime began as a makeshift music style, blending the eclectic sounds of London's Afro-Caribbean community. Borne out of an amalgamation of various music genres, from reggae, dancehall, bashment, ragga and dub, to garage and drum and bass, grime has made its way from humble beginnings to a global phenomenon over the past…
Graeme Bell
22nd November 2018

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