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.


Show me the money.

Several bankers have been fined in the neighboring coastal town next to the Island Guhanta. They have been accused of stealing the blueprints of the now Guhantan Prison which used to be the main town hospital. Relatives of the prisoners have been enticing the bankers once at the counter in the bank showing them stuffed notes down cleavages and sleeves. The bankers then hand over the ‘small birds’ which are the nick-names of the blue prints. So-called because they give a birds- eye-view of the whole construction. It seems that the underground maps were found in one of the vaults of the bank and local historians now want to investigate possible secret underground pathways which may connect as up to three or four major buildings.


CAPTION: "A project that has gone on too long and I have charged too little, so there is a sense that I have been a prisoner of this job - and I really want them to show me the money now!" by Lisa Temple-Cox, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Essex.


CAPTION: 'Big notes, for Small Birds', by Marion Innes, Scotland.


CAPTION: 'Inside the Guhantan tunnels' by Mandy Williams, London.