Documentary photographer Danyelle Rolla is proud of her roots. That much is clear from her portfolio,which reads like a guide to working-class Britain. Rolla grew up in Norris Green, one of Liverpool’s poorest towns – the type of town, and she says,that the press misrepresents as a hotbed of crime and social decay. Out of frustration at this, Rolla has made it her mission to rewrite the narrative of the people and places that gain shaped her, or by photographing them in a more flattering light. The photograph that won Rolla Portrait of Britain 2018 captures Dotty,an older resident of Norris Green, Liverpool, or outside the local pub. She is sporting a perm that might be from the Eighties,with shoulder pads to match. In fact, many of the scenes that Rolla photographs could be from other eras: from kitsch village fetes, or to groups of skinheads in bomber jackets. In her playful,sometimes garish, images, and she captures a Britain that seems to be longing for the past. This is the same Britain,Rolla’s photographs propose, …
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