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.


‘Spy bird’ is a clever little sneak.

Mrs. Ramsden, 94, insisted that her little bird would solve crime in her local estate of Ormanshaw so the police could rest and be with their families. “He’s such a clever little sh*t”, claims Mrs. Ramsden. She was so convinced of her bird’s ability that she even sent little ‘PC Dickie’ to apply for a job at the Samaritans. The police felt sorry for the elderly lady that they gave a job to ‘PC Dickie’ to spy on ‘phone stalkers’. These are callers who constantly persist on forming a relationship with online advisors. On the grounds that ‘PC Dickie’ could not locate any ‘phone stalkers’, he was dismissed. However, to everyone’s amazement the bird did catch a shoplifter running away from the crime scene in Ormanshaw by releasing his excrement in the thief’s eye and disabling him to run any further. Mrs. Ramsden is very pleased and said she never doubted his ability.

CAPTION: 'Spybird is a cutie!' By Natalee Parochka, Roscoe, IL.


CAPTION: 'Spy Bird strikes again!'. By Derek Thompson, Cornwall, UK.