The end of housing market renewal

The Guardian Housing Network is aimed at professionals within the industry. This week it ran a small selection of my Streetfighters images and captions to chart the end of this controversial regeneration policy. See it here.

Welsh Streets: “He had his possessions in that derelict abode”

Knockdown prices – the £35m ‘transition’ fund

Last house standing loses

Oops. Forgot to post this in October.

Homeless man dies in empty home

book

I’ve created a print-on-demand Streetfighters book featuring selected portraits and interviews while I work out how to move the project forward. The next step is I think going to be seeking grant funding, to allow me to visit affected neighbourhoods for a more significant period of time.

Amnesty Media Awards – honourable mention

I had some cracking news today. I’ve been told by Amnesty International that my Streetfighters project has received an honourable mention in this year’s AI Media Awards, in the digital category.

What makes this even more exciting is that the three shortlisted projects are all by well-funded major news organisations. They are:

Iraq War Logs, Bureau Of Investigative Journalism

Middle East Protests, Guardian Live Blog

and Pakistan Drone Warfare, Channel 4

It’s exciting to be in such esteemed company. Now I need to find a way to move this body of work forwards.