Concept:

‘Headlies’ is a text and visual project that uses real newspaper headlines but the stories beneath them are fabricated and fictional. Newspapers often take sides and we, the reader, judge on humanity from its text and photograph. From the newspaper’s perspective, access to public information is a good thing but a newspaper’s function surely is to tell the society about itself and to be a pollinator of its information? Its role is to inform the citizens but as information gradually travels down, the citizens become ill-advised, ill-prepared and mis-informed.


Children risk lives by going to school.

Parents in a previously secluded village in the Deep South have been advised that taking their children to the local church school can cause early death. The grim case was recently investigated following a community merger with a neighboring village, ‘new’ families relocating to save money and as an act of integration with their fellow Americans. The ongoing case revealed ancient ways and teachings, diet, forms of exercise and coming of age ceremonies, practiced in this village for over two hundred years, that were unfamiliar to newcomers. Children of ‘new’ families told the press that when they were in school they were made to make certain promises of sacrifice which they had to carry out before the end of the academic year. In the previous academic year three children aged between twelve and sixteen died in suspicious circumstances. Local church goers claim that the case is bizarre and in all their time living in this village, they have not come across such paranoid and troubled outsiders; “We welcome anyone, we do, we really do.”


CAPTION : 'Local parent Jarrett Ohl, 9th generation village resident, and his son, getting ready for school last Tuesday morning.'By Kyd Campbell, Berlin, Germany
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By Julieta Piacenza Vanderhoeven, Argentina.