Tim Richmond – Love Bites

Tim Richmond – Love BitesRichmonds elegiac, sombre ode to a coastal stretch of the Bristol Channel poetically weaves together lives hit by decades of austerity and isolation. Along this twenty mile stretch of one of the world's longest coastal mudflats, Richmonds Love Bites encounters those attempting to find meaning and pleasure within small town England. Beneath everyday photographs of food banks, punks, pleasure arcades, swingers clubs, shelters and new build houses,

another story

Continuing in a long line of British photographers that weave poetry and lyricism into social documentary projects

the city of Marseille typifies the tensions stemming from problematic governance

intensified details and a push-and-pull between the crowd and individual recall images of riots and political insurrections

These photographs chart an alternative history of this eventful period of British history

During those visits I collected wildflowers

On board the Queen Mary

to feel the sense of being nurtured and cared for once more

designed by the artist Philippe Koeune with V

a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the range of global references that have informed her practice

I want to share this with the world and I hope that women can find comfort in the work

An effort to merge language and formlessness in a yearn for a cyclic work