MARTHA by Siân Davey Fitzroviachapel My loneliness

My loneliness

in many ways

and the work exhibited around the world as part of their touring exhibition at: Victoria and Albert Museum

The book begins with the peaceful Youth March for Integrated Schools in 1958

MARTHA by Siân Davey Fitzroviachapel My lonelinessWhy dont you photograph me anymore? This is what Martha said to me in response to my camera being focused so often on her sister Alice. It took me by surprise. I wasnt aware that she would care, but clearly she did. The work began when Martha was 16 years of age, a time when a child is on that cusp of being and becoming a woman. Its a particular period of time, when for a brief period you are both a young woman and child in the same body, before the