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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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Full of empathy

A great view into how the UK is failing it's poor - who are on the brink on turning from the working poor to the working homeless, under an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and a continuous string of failing governments.

As always, she does a great job in combining documentary photography, scrapbooking and relevant texts (e.g. from parliamentary debates). Well worth your time if you can get your hands on it!

Eliot Stein: Custodians of Wonder (2024, St. Martin's Press)

A love letter to the traditions depicted

I loved hearing about all these customs and how people are fighting to keep them alive, especially those embedded into a larger community culture context. It's a very easy-reading book and quite moving.

At times the individual stories just feel too neatly wrapped, which I understand from a storytelling perspective, but some cynical parts of me can't feel and wonder how much embellishing there's going on to put such nice a bow on some of the stories.