Photo: Jonathan Barnbrook
Although tensions in Northern Ireland between Nationalists wanting independence from Britain (or to give the country its official title, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Unionists determined to remain part of the UK have eased somewhat since the signing of the British/Irish Agreement (Belfast agreement) in 1998, the region's history of conflict still permeates every aspect of daily life. The situation is more complex than a simple religious clash between Protestant and Catholic. This photograph was taken in a Protestant/Loyalist area. A boy, wearing a shirt of the Protestant Rangers football team, plays in front of a paramilitary mural about
the UDA/UFF.
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Yoneda Tomoko
Born 1965 in Hyogo Prefecture. Lives in London. Major solo exhibitions: Beyond Memory and Uncertainty (2003, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo), A Decade After (2005, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History) and After the Thaw (2005, Shugoarts, Tokyo). Major group exhibitions include Non-sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III (2004, Yokohama Museum of Art), Yokohama Triennale 2005, and in 2007, the Venice and Istanbul Biennials, and Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan (Beijing and Guangzhou). Published photocollections: Between Visible (2004) and In-between 9: Hungary, Estonia (2005).
