Hardship & homemaking: care & crime

‘Heroin House’

There is little to say and even less to imagine. What you see is what you get.

‘Thief’s Laundry’

There are ways and means for putting food on the table. Each with care no matter how outrageous.

‘Banner’s seamstress’

when our home is under threat, the homemakers hands turn to methods of resistance. 

Having been released from HMP only a few weeks before and returning to HMP only a few weeks after these photos, the subject was in their short release restricted to their home between 7pm and 7am. Any free hour they got was spent kicking back at their punishment in whatever ways they could find

‘Rag-tag’

Having been served a possession order just a few hours previously, which for squatters is the same as an eviction notice, there was little to do other than prepare for a long night and subsequently a long few days of uncertainty. The only thing we know for sure is that when the bailiffs come you don’t want to be asleep.

‘Pre-eviction lines’