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In the midst of a divided Europe,
the Declaring Independence project was born.
When Britain voted to leave the EU,
far-right politicians hailed Britain’s ‘independence day’.
Declaring Independence steals this phraseology and repurposes it. Our independence is to reject rising nationalism and isolation.
The project has since grown and taken on new meaning.
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Declaring Independence elevates the voices and faces
of those historically underrepresented
within the field of mainstream media: women, the queer community, people from racial, ethnic, or religious minority groups, individuals with special needs or disabilities, elderly citizens. By making space for them, Declaring Independence
shifts the balance in the public discourse about Europe. Our project offers new perspectives on a highly mediated territory — making noise in a conversation usually occupied by politicians and elites.
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In the midst of a divided Europe,
the Declaring Independence project was born.
When Britain voted to leave the EU,
far-right politicians hailed Britain’s ‘independence day’.
Declaring Independence steals this phraseology and repurposes it.
Our independence is to reject rising nationalism and isolation.
The project has since grown and taken on new meaning.♥¸.•**◦༄◦°˚°◦.¸¸彡彡
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Declaring Independence elevatesthe voices and faces
within the field of mainstream media: women, the queer community, people from racial, ethnic, or religious minority groups, individuals with special needs or disabilities, elderly citizens. By making space for them, Declaring Independence
shifts the balance in the public discourse about Europe. Our project offers new perspectives on a highly mediated territory — making noise in a conversation usually occupied by politicians and elites.
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Declaring Independence elevates
the voices and faces
of those historically underrepresented
within the field of mainstream media: women, the queer community, people from racial, ethnic, or religious minority groups, individuals with special needs or disabilities, elderly citizens. By making space for them, Declaring Independence shifts the balance in the public discourse about Europe. Our project offers new perspectives on a highly mediated territory — making noise in a conversation usually occupied by politicians and elites.
Declaring Independence is a
meeting point.
The project weaves together radically different trajectories, lifestyles and discourses;
provoking encounters
that would not have happened elsewhere than within these pages.
Through this project, I hope to weave links between
British-based creators and European nationals. I hope to use
photography and fashion as tools
to deconstruct social barriers —
and reach out to other spaces and communities.
It’s an invitation to dialogue, to revitalise and expand networks,
and to foster cross-border collaborations; in times of humanitarian and creative crisis.
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4.Declaring Independence is an on-going project,
an evolving work in progress,
a slooow publication.
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Declaring Independence is about building
an archive of the future.
We’re piecing together
a vast,
borderless
portrait of Europe’s creative scene
— a topology of a rapidly evolving social landscape.
Declaring Independence is a living and breathing document. We’re
taking back the right to preserve and record our own collective memory.
The sitter in each portrait is intentionally posing for posterity.
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Declaring Independence uses
our own language.
This is ahybrid project, at the intersection between social documentary and a fashion editorial.
Fashion has historically been a tool for measuring
privilege, social class and individual freedom.
Playing with these codes
gives us agency over our
own representation in the world.
This subjectivity represents a radical break away from the presumed neutrality of documentary photography. These are purposefully curated scenes, featuring people who have chosen to be involved, using creativity, symbols and thought.
We are Europe, Europe is also this, we’re
reclaiming our own narrative.
I am deliberately documenting something from the inside, I’m touching and even disrupting reality. I believe in the power of photography to reinvent society, and be an agent of change.
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Declaring Independence blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
I shape scenes; but stories then unfold that are beyond my control,
and that narrative is where the work really begins.
I collect real or imaginary stories.
Each image is an interpretation,
a call to question, to critically
engage.
I am not a historian, I will never hold any definitive truth,
Declaring Independence doesn’t aim to bring answers.
It’s an incentive to
unlearn and rebuild
what it means to be “European”
through a creative experiment.
8.In Declaring Independence,
I try not to focus on the end product ; but on the
conversations and relationships
that occur during these days.
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Declaring Independence brings together
a multitude of voices. The project is aan interactive dialogue,
unravelling the patchwork
of realities and experiences
that differentiate and unite us.
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Declaring Independence hopes to give
9.Declaring Independence brings together
a multitude of voices. The project is a
an interactive dialogue,
unravelling the patchwork
of realities and experiences
that differentiate and unite us.
voice and pride of place
to overlooked cultures, bringing together marginalized voices into
a common network that expands over borders.
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