The less heard, the less obvious.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
During the first world war, field bakeries became a staple within every infantry division. The demands of war later forced a huge expansion of the bakeries which provided bread, a staple ration of each soldier.…