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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
This photo essay speaks for itself, so I won’t spoil it with too much of an introduction.
The story is set in Havering, one of the strongest pro-Brexit voting boroughs in the UK. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given what we now know of the voting demographics, it also has an older-than-average and a less-diverse population.
Photographer Sean Smith spent some time getting under the skin of the place: from the bingo hall to the onslaught of Friday night drinking in town.
It’s a powerful stand-alone piece. I’ll let you have your own thoughts on this one.