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.


You’ve got a cat? OK, you can come to Britain.

As we all must be aware now that the immigration law in this country is stricter than ever. The ‘tests’ are difficult and the criteria is stressful to undergo. That is unless you have a cat. Biologist’s recent research show that there are too many stray birds in the UK, particularly in the South of the country, that they are eating the farmer’s crops. “We cannot afford our own crops to be taken away from us like this, it’s not fair on the farmers especially as they have it hard enough in this economic climate”, says the Chairperson of the Farmer’s Association, Mr. Creed. A spokesperson for the immigration law says that “our people have to work together to maintain the identity of our country and if this means adjusting the immigration laws a little so be it.” Officials are now saying that if an immigrant has ownership of a cat, they can sit in on the tests and answer only 50% of the questions. It is hoped that with the introduction of cats, the bird problem will eventually come to a halt.


Caption:'Catless immigrant jumps after failed test' by Phill Hopkins, Leeds UK.


Caption: 'A Dreamer's Conduction',By James Fickling, Nottingham, UK.


By Gabriella Disler, Basel, Switzerland.


CAPTION: 'It raises the demand of cats and everything else that looks alike.' By Carla Piacenza, Argentina.


CAPTION: 'An Argentinian boy looking for the few cats that still stay in the country.' By Carla Piacenza, Argentina.


CAPTION: 'Bye Bye Birdie'. By Salmi Magid, Houston, TX, USA.