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.


Prisoners go to war over ‘small birds’.

Following our news article ‘Spy bird is a clever little sneak’, prisoners in the Island of Guhanta have been asking relatives to smuggle in small birds that can help them to devise plans of escape from the prison. However, the ‘little birds’ the prisoners are referring to are not the tweeting two legged kind, but they are small old blue prints of the prison’s foundations. Before Guhanta Prison was erected, the building used to be a hospital with slightly different construction outlines. The plans are called ‘small birds’ because they show the birds eye view of the plans of the hospital. Twenty prisoners have been caught with these plans and as the Guhantan law declares of an unlawful act, that “a criminal either goes to prison or if this is deemed inappropriate they must serve in the civil war of the time”.

By Johnny Amore, Berlin, Germany.


CAPTION: 'Is war a freedom?' by Helen Rawling, London, UK.


CAPTION: 'Form of Art or Form of Escape?' By Don Emrick, Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.