SIMON BRANN THORPE: Toy Soldiers

SIMON BRANN THORPE: Toy SoldiersTexts by Chad Elias and Jacob Mundy October 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of conflict in Western Sahara. It is a conflict that remains unresolved and has resulted in an estimated 160,000 people being made refugees, many of whom are now 2nd or 3rd generation. In Toy Soldiers, Simon Brann Thorpe blurs the boundaries between document, landscape and concept based photography to explore this conflict. He examines the impact and potential

those first 21 years living in a warren of terraced streets set amongst factories and continually polluted by their smells and noise

communal experiences

Giving equal importance to new photographs

ISBN: 978-1-916915-01-5

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tree trunks and river-bed rocks begin to resemble sculptures

his extensive archive was acquired by the Library of Birmingham in 2004

Eijkelboom’s work is about us all: people struggling with a deep longing for individual identity

unable to move

Over the last four years Martin Parr has been working on a commission for Multistory photographing the Black Country

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