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.


Comedy pub used as squat.

Kids have apparently failed by the system have been taking their future in their own hands. A raid was enforced at the Hula Hoop Pub in Marsden last week. A group of about 20 young adults, male and female were caught drinking beer and smoking but more confusingly, laughing to, what seemed like a comedian on stage. “Well we just wanna laugh and some of here have real talent at doing that for the folks,” says one member of the comedy group. It seems that the building which was once used as a comedy pub has kept its legacy and now it has been taken over by squatters who, as well as sleep, eat and drink there, use it to facilitate any potential comedians who take it in turn to get up on stage and perform. “It’s dead funny, it really is,” says Bono, a long time member of the so-called association. Police have denied that they were unaware of the pub’s usage.


Caption:'For every minute you are laughing, someone else has sixty seconds of crying.' By Sheree Angela Matthews, Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear.


CAPTION: 'Nobody really knows what's happening...' By Thiago Hersan, Sao Paulo, Brazil (photo was taken in Bogota, Colombia)


CAPTION: 'Fun Pub' by Mark Lomax, Inverness.


CAPTION: 'Eat, drink and be merry (for tomorrow we die)' by Chiara Puntil, London.