The Quiet Town of Tipton
ISBN-13: 9781907893728
Contributor(s): Mahtab Hussain
Subject: Photography & Photographs
Publisher Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Publication Date: 18-06-2015
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£19.99
About the book
On 12th July 2013, a bomb exploded close to the Kanzul Iman mosque in Tipton, West Midlands. The bomb had been packed with nails. A week later, Pavlo Lapshyn, a Ukrainian student on a temporary work placement in Birmingham, was arrested and charged for the Tipton bombing and for earlier attacks near mosques in Walsall and Wolverhampton. Mahtab Hussain uses photography to explore the important relationship between identity, heritage and displacement. His work has been described as articulating a visual language that challenges prevailing concepts of multiculturalism.