'Sectarian Murder'- Paul Seawright

'Sectarian Murder' is a photographic series by the photgrapher Paul Seawright, and some of the photographs are on show at the Tate Britain as part of the 'Photographing Britain' exhibition. It consists of photographs of places where political murders have been committed in Northern Ireland over the past 30 years. Each is accompanied by the date on which the event occurred and a description of the event taken from newspapers, with all references to political organisations ommitted. This means the work focuses on the innocent lives that have been claimed for religious and political reasons. I really liked this work as the scene that is created by using the newspaper headline in conjunction with a raw image is very emotive, and almost eery in the fact that there are no people depicted in the scene. The work also exposes a side to Britain that most people outside of Northern Ireland can rarely ever relate to- something that interested me greatly.