Elections

Fear & Loathing in Service Station Britain /  by Ross Domoney

From summer 2017: 

Amongst the darkness of the recent attacks and days before another election, we asked the British people:

What do they see threatening them and their Britishness.

Instead of heading to the squares of towns and cities where people congregate, we were drawn to the more unusual places within the British landscape.

Places that were once the height of fashion and destination diner spots. But we now know them more as creepy, neglected road side refuge areas.

The great British service station.

By Ross Domoney & Keymea Yazdanian

Video: The Real State of Emergency /  by Ross Domoney

As the press and politicians obsess themselves with the second round of voting in the French elections, with the choice between the two final contenders seeming meaningless for many, we follow those who were never offered a choice to begin with: France's forgotten refugee populations are now faced with grim future scenarios, dictated by either the neoliberal, or the outright fascist policies of the two remaining candidates. 

Video from first round of French elections /  by Ross Domoney

In the hours before the first round of the French elections, as the voices of European reason and liberalism anguished and then sighed with relief, we took to the streets of Paris: from its edge to its core, the French capital exudes fear and resentment. For so many, the election is distant, irrelevant, unable to change a life for which there is little to celebrate.

By Ross & Antonis

Saint-Denis, the day before. /  by Ross Domoney

'As France braces itself for the April 22 election, we visit the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis to talk with the locals there: to get a sense of their fears and hopes for what lies ahead.'

Glare at your TV screen, flick through your feeds, blink at your flashing updates and you will soon immerse yourself in what is meant to be an election like no other, an election that is supposed to determine the future of France and even Europe as we’ve known it so far.

Keep it at that, and you could easily believe the election is fought at the TV studios, between the four gladiators fighting for the soul of the Republic. But out in the city things are, as always, more complicated. In the days leading up to, and following the election, we ask urbanites about their fears and their hopes. As the country grips itself for the mother of all battles, we delve into the city’s streets and its metro carriages to brush out its psyche.

Ross Domoney & Antonis Vradis. 

With the help of Daniel Murphy & Eric Amalraj