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…
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.
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…
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
Ahead of the launch of The Home & Migration issue which is due to drop later this month, we wanted to share a shortened piece by Wes Foster on Michael Danner’s, Migration as Avant-Garde, ahead…
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…
Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures – A Life Long Retrospective
American Photographer Martha Cooper has documented the formerly underground culture of street art for close to four decades. Throughout her career she has been at the forefront of photographing graffiti, street art and various other…
Vulcano By Giulia De Marchi
If you visit Sicily, you cannot leave without visiting the volcano. Etna is, like all active volcanoes, (in fact, even more due to its unique majesty) the meeting point between black and white, heaven and…
Stewart Weir’s Afghanistan, After The Fall – Contested Territories
Before we launch our newest issue, we are sharing some of the content from Contested Territories. Today we look back at the stunning work of Stewart Weir. If you like what you read and want…
The Othernet – Contested Territories
Imagine another internet. Location specific, not through geofencing, but through the physical limits of its infrastructure, able to be visited by subway or on foot, unique like the very neighbourhood its in.service providers, there are…
AND 2020: An annual selection of influential documentary and portrait photographers
AND is an annual selection of some of the best up and coming influential documentary and portrait photographers showcasing poignant and inspiring imagery from across the globe.
We Give You Our Life And Blood
“Hell could be such a place - a place of suffering and death.” This “Hell” is now also known as the square at the heart of an uprising in Iraq.
Between Revolution and War In El Salvador
In 1984 photographer Mike Goldwater travelled to El Salvador’s northern province of Chalatenango to record the history of the peasant movement in the region and the role of campesinos in the Salvadorean revolution. These pictures,…
Things That I Know, Things That You Know
Things That I Know, Things That You Know is a combination of human form, objects and written text. Heather Rattray describes her series as a visual representation of the process of learning a new language.