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Along this twenty-mile stretch of one of the world’s longest coastal mudflats, Richmond’s *Love Bites* encounters those trying to find meaning and joy in England’s small towns. Amid everyday photographs of food banks, punks, amusement arcades, swingers’ clubs, shelters, and newly built homes, Richmond uncovers a pervasive malaise among his subjects: an apathetic microcosm of post-austerity, post-Brexit Britain. Love Bites allows these tensions to simmer to the surface: food poverty, isolation, commercial decline, housing insecurity, homelessness, unfulfilled desires, and nostalgia blend together under the vast, overcast skies of the English Channel and its flat, sprawling coastline.
Following in the footsteps of a long line of British photographers who infuse social documentary projects with poetry and lyricism, Richmond uses a delicate color palette and a sympathetic lens to capture the everyday realities of isolation and longing in this corner of southwest England.
Published by Loose Joints, 2022
28 × 22cm
136 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912719-34-1
Along this twenty-mile stretch of one of the world’s longest coastal mudflats, Richmond’s *Love Bites* encounters those trying to find meaning and joy in England’s small towns. Amid everyday photographs of food banks, punks, amusement arcades, swingers’ clubs, shelters, and newly built homes, Richmond uncovers a pervasive malaise among his subjects: an apathetic microcosm of post-austerity, post-Brexit Britain. Love Bites allows these tensions to simmer to the surface: food poverty, isolation, commercial decline, housing insecurity, homelessness, unfulfilled desires, and nostalgia blend together under the vast, overcast skies of the English Channel and its flat, sprawling coastline.
Following in the footsteps of a long line of British photographers who infuse social documentary projects with poetry and lyricism, Richmond uses a delicate color palette and a sympathetic lens to capture the everyday realities of isolation and longing in this corner of southwest England.
Published by Loose Joints, 2022
28 × 22cm
136 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912719-34-1
