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.


Lies behind those dirty weekends.

What do you ask on that dreary Monday morning back at work wishing your life away for another weekend? “Have a good weekend, what did you get up to?” Half would lie and make something exciting up, like a dirty weekend away. The other half would ponder for a moment of how miserable and predictable their lives were and mutter “nothing much, you?” It seems that a group of middle aged women of one establishment have been lying to work colleagues and their families about their whereabouts during certain times of the year. The ‘women with issues’ have been performing rituals to wash away their memories and traumas of their ex-husbands and partners. This may be a regular occurrence which the female gender may do to cleanse away certain woes and head aches but this particular group were caught when the disused ex-comedy pub burnt down to the ground after one of the rituals got out of hand. Police have denied that the pub was used as a ritual site.


Caption: 'Game Over' by Maik Kleinschmidt, London, UK.


CAPTION: 'Blue Sunday' by Eskild Beck, Denmark.