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.


Dustmen ‘at risk from wheelie bins.’

Over the past two years the figures of living cats being discarded in wheelie bins has doubled. Dustmen who loyally go about doing their day to day jobs are being physically attacked by the cats when the bin lids are opened. Because the cats have been neglected, sometimes away from daylight for several days, they are hungry and scared so as a defense they jump out violently when they are released. Local dustmen are saying that this country has lost its senses. “how can a lovely cat be discarded just like that, like it’s an animal, well I know its an animal but a nice one at that,” says dustman Eric who has been in the business for 25 years. He adds, “I blame the immigration laws.”

CAPTION: 'Writer, music maker and feeder of one, slightly bemused, cat' by Ziggy Evitts, Chichester, UK.


CAPTION: 'Waiting patiently for my revenge' by Eleanor Leonne Bennett, UK.


CAPTION: 'A blood-stained glove was found 70 meters away from where a dustman got attacked by a cat jumping out of a wheelie bin' by Teresa Leung, Hong Kong.