Spit Gold Onto An Empire
For the people of Myanmar, history is repeating itself once again. On the 1st of February 2021, the Myanmar military stormed the parliament building, taking control of the country in another military coup.
A human approach to documenting society with John Bolloten
Being firmly interested in photography for around ten years now and viewing it on a daily basis ever since then, I can only recall one photographer who has documented Bradford in a way that has…
The Process – Maria Meco
Maria Meco is a Bristol based Spanish photographer. Currently studying a degree at UWE, Marias work marriages themes of documentary, fine art and portraiture.
The Process – Raphael Gaultier
A social documentary photographer based in Seattle, Raphael Gaultier’s work is centred around cultural preservation and capturing the intimacies of daily life. His latest series, The Last Whispers of the Light, focuses on what home…
The Process – Matilde Viegas
A self-taught photographer based in Porto, Matilde Viegas’ work deals with themes of intimacy and connection, as well as personal history and identity. Viegas’ themes stem from personal experience documenting issues surrounding family, migration, relationships…
Trellick: The Writing is on the Wall
Anna Gudbrands Trellick: The Writing Is on The Wall is a documentary film highlighting the importance of the Trellick Tower and the Graffiti Hall of Fame. In Autumn 2020, it was revealed that Royal Borough…
Unrest and Violence in Andrew Moore’s Troubles
First visiting Belfast in 1986, Andrew Moore would return repeatedly until 1998, the year of the Good Friday Agreement. In his early 20s Moore had begun to document the social unrest in England triggered by…
The Victory Arch – An interview with Joe Preston
The Victory Arch and its accompanying parade ground was opened on the 8th of the 8th, 1988 in Baghdad. It was commissioned by Saddam Hussein to commemorate the victory of Iraq over Iran although production…
Sem Langendijk’s Docklands
Initiated in 2015, Sem Langendijk’s The Docklands Project is an analyses of the post-industrial city through the harbour area. Focusing on the high demand for living near the water, the project tries to get a…
The Wall – Griselda San Martin
The Wall is a photographic series by Griselda San Martin that documents a small, binational half-acre of land running along the border between San Diego and Tijuana. By calling attention to the human interactions at…
The Everyday Aftermath – Charles Thiefaine’s Allah Ala
If you go onto Google Maps, click the little yellow body shape in the bottom corner and zoom out you can see the areas of the world which are the most densely mapped. As you…
Alexander Chekmenev’s Passport
In 1921, after overthrowing the centuries-old Romanov monarchy, Russia emerged from a civil war as the newly formed Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a federal socialist state that existed from 1921 to 1991. From…
A Story of Migration and Escape
Eritrea is a northeast African country on the Red Sea coast. It shares borders with Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti and has been in conflict several decades. In the 1930’s, following 40 years of colonisation, Mussolini…
Lara Shipley – The Passerby
In the Sonoran Desert, a vast rural space that bridges the border of the United States and Mexico, people continue to pass through, as they have been doing for thousands of years. They are propelled…
We Are Not What You Say We Are – An Interview With Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore is a British photographer based in London and uses images to capture the stories the world has to tell. His work has seen him travel to places such as Bangladesh, Lebanon and Georgia,…
AND 2020 Book Launch
Each year at Then There Was Us we strive to celebrate the outstanding work of those who are consistently creating unique and powerful stories, published in a beautifully printed annual.
Migration as Avant-Garde
To migrate is far away from what many of us really know: when we speak of someone living abroad for a year, or going to work elsewhere, we do not speak of them of having…
Daniel Kovalovszky: An Infernal Play
In 1945 in Hungary, Mátyás Rákosi the leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, following the Soviet example, introduced a new Stalinist dictatorship in which human rights were severely violated. He established the State Protection Security…
The Home & Migration Issue
Within this issue we begin our exploration of the definitions, meanings and circumstances of Home & Migration. We begin to unravel the sprawling and extensive concepts of home and in turn, the effects and consequences…