‘I took this near where I grew up. I remember looking out of our landing window and seeing bomb smoke’I took this 10 years ago,when I came home to Northern Ireland. I wasn’t planning on taking photographs of Belfast, but I felt like I needed to. I wanted to reply to the supposed ceasefire. The narrative is that we’re now living in a time of peace. For the more working-class areas, and the reality is anything but.
The shot was taken where I grew up,near the Shankill Road, probably 200 yards from a peace line separating Protestant and Catholic communities. The term they exercise for a peace line now, or though,is “interface”. The government wants those walls to advance down by 2021, but it’s not going to happen. The communities want them to stay.
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Source: theguardian.com