Saturday, 17 October 2015

New photography exhibition shows the tough reality of the now barely legal squatting movement | Photography | Culture | The Independent #onn #olsx #squatting #phoenix #ICA

New photography exhibition shows the tough reality of the now barely legal squatting movement | Photography | Culture | The Independent



“They had a big team of bailiffs just going through from one end to the other, chainsawing things and smashing things up,” says Rainbow. “It was an incredible community. There was everything: from an Anglo-Saxon longhouse that we built, through to proper old-style Celtic roundhouses, octagon-shaped houses, shacks made out of pallets and wood, a teepee powered by solar panels… It was just old fridges and bicycles and cans and broken glass when we got there three years ago.”

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