LOVE/LUCK

For over a year Kate and photographer Tony Ward from Top Color, Hessle Road, connected with people via his shop or EofUs work. Resulting in We believe in love not luck – a deep collaboration that produced portraits, documented lives, ceramics, social events and a publication.

Everyone included was connected to the Hessle Road area. Their lives are shaped by being there, forged as part of the community’s long but changing docklands history. Some came from families who, for generations, have lived and worked there. Others arrived more recently. With all contributing to this area’s rich docklands heritage.
The project began as an exploration into the maritime tattoos seen on many of the areas older men. It developed into a process of collecting the visible and invisible marks people carry; marks that represent identity, struggle, love and history.
Displays of the work are currently in Hull Central Library and Top Color. An exhibition of the portraits was shown as temporary large-scale display on Hessle Road hoardings, as an exhibition in Chiltern Primary School and they featured in Issue 4 of the EofUs newspaper.
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