The British Isles Peter Eleey and the idiosyncrasies of this

and the idiosyncrasies of this luminous text

she developed a method of handing out simple cameras and encouraging people – ordinarily the ‘subjects’ of a professional photographer – to author their own images of themselves and their communities

repetition in images and text

or a child’s playing ball caught between light and shadow

The British Isles Peter Eleey and the idiosyncrasies of thisThe British Isles is an account of thirteen years of life across the United Kingdom, as seen through the lens of Jamie Hawkesworth. In this sprawling sequence of portraits and landscapes, Hawkesworth surveys the characters and terrains that make up the everyday fabric of his home country: schoolchildren and shopworkers, markets and estates, priests and professionals, cities and construction sites. These photographs chart an alternative history of this