Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Editorial / Photo Essay

To Sea Again

  • Photographer
    Faraz Pourreza-Jorshari

Sadly Brexit is irreversible and will start to take effect next year. This documentary photography project is focusing on a disgruntled group of ex-fishermen from Grimsby, UK, whose livelihood were destroyed by the decline of the fishing industry in the early 1980s. The sweeping deindustrialisation, expanding economic inequality, sense of government betrayal and bigotry of the media led the frustration and anger of a majority to simply vote against the elite/establishment in the 2016 EU referendum. This project aims to shed light on the factors that manifested themselves in Brexit, whilst looking at the intimate lives of these extraordinary ex-fishermen. It seeks to remind us of the compassion needed for those whose lives were affected and/or destroyed by the establishment and the politics that fail so many. These are lives made up of friendship, loyalty, integrity and pride.