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In Focus: Jeremy Hunter & Seema Khalique

IN FOCUS

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In this edition of IN FOCUS, Photojournalism Hub brings together two photographers exploring very different perspectives on culture, identity and belonging. Jeremy Hunter draws on decades of international reporting to document rituals, traditions and societies, including his extensive work in North Korea. Seema Khalique explores memory, migration and identity through photography, moving image and personal histories, giving visibility to stories that have helped shape multicultural Britain.


Jeremy Hunter is a UNESCO award-winning British investigative photojournalist, television producer, writer and broadcaster whose career has taken him across more than 70 countries and five continents.
Beginning his career in advertising and television, Jeremy subsequently moved into broadcast journalism, reporting from politically sensitive and historically significant locations, including Lebanon during the civil war, India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and Portugal during its transition to democracy. He later worked with major British broadcasters, including the BBC and Granada Television.

His photography has focused particularly on festivals, rituals, religious traditions and culturally distinctive communities. His work has received UNESCO/HPA recognition, including a Documentary Award in 2011 for his work in Nagaland, alongside awards for his photography from the Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph and BBC News.
Jeremy is also known for his extensive photographic work in North Korea, where he documented the country’s monumental Arirang performance, propaganda and aspects of everyday life. His illustrated presentation, North Korea Exposed – Daily Life in the Hermit Kingdom, has been delivered internationally to audiences at cultural institutions, universities and venues including the Palace of Westminster, UNESCO, NATO and the Royal Geographical Society.

His books include Sacred Festivals, published in English, French and German, and his photographs have appeared in publications including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, GEO, Stern and Condé Nast Traveller. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Paris Photo and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
Drawing on decades of first-hand reporting and photographic documentation, Jeremy uses visual storytelling to explore cultural identity, religion, politics, propaganda and the ways societies represent themselves.

Seema Khalique is a photography and moving-image artist, curator and producer whose practice explores memory, identity and personal history through documentary and portraiture. Her socially engaged practice centres around marginalised communities, using creative practices to give voice to their stories and develop new forms of community engagement.

Khalique curated About Then, a group exhibition for the Stephen Lawrence Gallery which was reviewed by the British Journal of Photography. She was also curator for Migration Quest, an immersive and interactive art exhibition at the Kobi Nazrul Centre. Khalique is Artist and curator of Londoni Memoirs which exhibited at Four Corner.
Khalique is currently exhibiting at Brighton Photo Fringe 2026. She is a Photoworks Photography Champion for Medway and a Board Member at Four Corners. 

Londoni Memoirs is a collection of portraits, curated ephemera, artifacts, heirlooms and video-interviews of 12 Bangladeshi migrants from 1950s-70s, documenting their exodus from genocide during the 1971 liberation war and watching their motherland’s independence from afar while making UK their home. The project grew from Seema’s own search for a family history that had largely remained undocumented, especially of her late father’s early life in the UK. He arrived in Britain in 1956, followed by her mother in 1973 after the Bangladesh Liberation War, both in search of a better life. At the heart of Londoni Memoirs is the experience of a generation caught between two defining moments: escaping genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War and establishing a new life in an unfamiliar foreign country. The project considers how these experiences helped shape not only British Bangladeshi identity, but also the country as a whole through the generations born in Britain afterwards.
Londoni Memoirs seeks to honour a generation whose contribution was pivotal in the development of the multicultural society that exists in the UK today.

IN FOCUS is produced by the Photojournalism Hub in collaboration with Riverside Studios to present compelling, thought-provoking, independent and courageous photo storytelling.

INJUSTICES & INEQUALITIES: COVID-19 EDITION 7

Covid'19: Injustices & Inequalities, Journal

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, existing inequalities became increasingly visible, while many vulnerable communities faced new and intensified forms of insecurity.

In the seventh edition of the Journal on Injustice & Inequalities: COVID-19, Photojournalism Hub presented the work of two photographers documenting the impact of the pandemic on communities experiencing inequality and marginalisation.

Zaragoza, Spain

Cris Aznar — Evictions during the pandemic

Photographer Cris Aznar documented the eviction of four families living in the same building in Zaragoza’s La Jota neighbourhood.

The photographs reveal the housing insecurity experienced by families already living in vulnerable circumstances, including survivors of gender-based violence, refugee families, young pregnant women and older people with health problems.

With courts reopening following the initial state of alarm, evictions resumed at a time when the pandemic was placing additional pressure on people already at risk of poverty and homelessness. Families facing eviction were left with limited options, including overcrowded accommodation, occupying empty properties or becoming homeless — circumstances that could also increase their exposure to the virus.

Aznar’s work documents the human consequences of the housing crisis during the pandemic and asks a wider question about what happens to people whose insecurity existed long before COVID-19.

The project reflects one of the central concerns of Photojournalism Hub’s Journal on Injustice & Inequalities: using photography to make structural inequalities visible and to create space for reflection and action.

Documentación del desahucio de 4 familias del mismo bloque en el barrio La Jota

Photograph: © Cris Aznar
Documentación del desahucio de 4 familias del mismo bloque en el barrio La Jota, Zaragoza.

Read the original Journal on Injustice & Inequalities: COVID-19 edition:
Journal on Injustice & Inequalities

CAPTURING CRISIS

Community Photojournalism Projects, PHOTOGRAPHY FOR YOUTHS, Photojournalism Course, Youth Magazine

I am incredibly pleased to present the fifth edition of Capturing Crisis photography and reporting magazine produced by the group of youths of the ‘Stories, Reporting Mag, Photography Course’ project. Responding to the cost of living crisis, the young photographers have produced photo stories and photographs covering topics that expose social justice issues as well as current social and environmental changes. In this issue, you will find photo stories documenting a community led urban space called ‘Meanwhile’ and street photography that in a candid manner seek to document the impact of the economic crisis. I am very proud for the commitment, talent and drive demonstrated by the young participants. Thankful for the support of West London NHS Trust and the National Lottery for the support in producing the ‘Capturing Crisis’ magazines.

In Focus: James Clifford Kent & Bharat Patel

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For our next In Focus at Riverside Studios on 12 October 2026 at 7:15 pm, we are delighted to welcome documentary photographers James Clifford Kent and Bharat Patel.
Exploring themes of belonging, healthcare and marginalisation, their work spans care environments in Cuba and the UK and the lives of India’s nomadic and de-notified nomadic communities. Kent and Patel will share their approaches to building trust, documenting sensitive human stories, and the role of documentary photography today.

James Clifford Kent is a London-based photographic artist whose research-led practice explores culture, health and social change. Through long-term relationships and sustained image-making, he navigates the space between intimate experience and broader social narratives, focusing on the textures of everyday life and the conditions that shape it. His award-winning work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts, and featured in BBC News, The Guardian and The Times. James is co-founder and creative director of Yuma Studios and holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He is the author of Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City and is currently developing his first photobook. 
Central to Kent’s relationship-led practice is listening. His images result from lasting relationships and sustained dialogue with the people he photographs; allowing presence, voice and agency to shape the work. This approach also reflects a sharp awareness of positionality — the limits, responsibilities and ethics of working as an outsider. During his talk “Birth, Death and Everything In between” James will share work, stories and experiences from his long-term, ongoing work in Cuba, his photographs on maternity wards during the pandemic, and his recent work in hospices in the UK.  

Bharat Patel is a documentary photographer using the camera as a tool to connect with people in overlooked, difficult, or marginalised conditions. His work focuses on labour, survival, and human dignity capturing the quiet strength in spaces society often ignores. Through intimate portraits and raw environments, he aims not to evoke pity but to provoke recognition. Even in silence, he wants his images to speak honestly and to make people look where they usually turn away.
He was born in India, raised in Uganda, and later moved to England for higher education. He also spent several years working in Brazil. Living across four continents has given him a deep appreciation for diverse cultures, which continues to shape his perspective and photographic approach.
In 2012, he began what would become a multi-year project to photograph one of the most marginalised groups in India: The Nomadic Tribes and the De-notified Nomadic Tribes. These communities, whose numbers are estimated to be in the tens of millions, face systemic exclusion and hardship. These nomads served as entertainers, singers, dancers, knife sharpeners, snake charmers, gymnasts, acrobats, tightrope walkers, basket makers, grain millers, agricultural labourers, and herbalists—each tribe possessing its own unique set of skills. However, their contribution and lifestyle is now at odds with the demands of modern society. 
The work focuses on the history of these tribes and their subsequent marginalisation in part due to the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 by the colonial ruler. An act which criminalised many tribes. Remnants of the act still reverberate today.

IN FOCUS is produced by the Photojournalism Hub in collaboration with Riverside Studios to present compelling, thought-provoking, independent and courageous photo storytelling.

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Photojournalism Nights

Photojournalism Nights

Photojournalism Nights are photography events hosted by the Photojournalism Hub, bringing together guest photojournalists and documentary photographers to share their work, ideas and experiences. The events create opportunities for audiences to engage with photojournalism and explore how photography can contribute to social justice, public debate and social change.