‘Formal Mourning’

289x380mm
Softcover, newsprint
40 pages
First edition of 100
May 2021

“I will cure the world.” Blair’s astonishing mission
statement: From Afghanistan to Rwanda, Israel to Northern Ireland, The Congo to global warming, the starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalor..  WE CAN SORT IT ALL OUT (verbatim) Excerpt from ‘The Mirror,’ Wednesday October 3rd 2001

Images appropriated from archival tabloid and broadsheet newspapers from the British mainstream press between 1999 and 2021. Each edition was selected for its front-page depictions of significant historical events, as well as the press representation of collective public emotion and media bias throughout these periods. In particular, events which changed elements of society and widespread public opinion indefinitely.

Available from:

Village Books (Leeds, UK)
Tenderbooks (London, UK)