Victoria

1 st – 10th of July 2023Victoria is a documentary photography project that aims to capture and interpret the livesof a group of late-teenagers living in a small town at the centre of England. It takes place inthe summer before the splintering of their circle and journals the final few weeks they havetogether, constructing a hymn of all the anxiety, but also belonging which lace theircollective consciousness as they balance awkwardly on the verge of adulthood. Whileoffering a candid report of young life in the more remote parts of England, the work alsodocuments a spiritual and personal journey with the subjects at its centre as they are pulledfrom what felt like a fugue of crushing liminality, into a necessary regression of sorts, anuntamed freedom facilitating their growth toward the next stages of life.The work is presented as a series of chromogenic prints depicting a sequence of storiesunderpinned by small happenings. Scenes that are delicate and understated but emanateunique beauty. The world of these photographs becomes almost microcosmic to the realworld. Small moments, movements and details become signifiers for greater weights in life,and in the subjects’ lives. Bound by a common thread of truth, momentary truth, thesefragments are lured out of the quiet moments of everyday and trapped in the fold wheretime meets physicality.Callum Hansen's InstagramPreview date: 1 st of July 6-9PMLewisham Arthouse140 Lewisham WaySE14 6PD