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.


Car driver hits 40 cyclists.

A new game following the 1980’s version of ‘chicken’ where participants, mainly school kids dared each other to run across the motorway, has been a teen craze all over California. Many deaths were stupidly caused during these dares and ever since the traffic police have been touring schools and colleges to refrain young people from seeing the thrill in this. However, the tables have turned, at least in terms of mode of vehicle. Youngsters who have learnt to drive are daring each other to hit as many cyclists as they can from point A to B. One particular driver, not yet named hit 40 cyclists in the Southern area of California. Some were of mothers and their toddlers in the back seat. Tremendously, no one has been killed in this particular case. The criminal who will face severe charges will be an example of dangerous and reckless behaviour to fellow new drivers in the California area.


Caption: 'Zigzag' by Zeev Parush, Israel.


Caption: 'From let to right, Alex, Action, Artificial' by Dave Briggs, Loughborough.