The only way is…

As a native to Essex and a father to two young girls (aged 9 and 12), photographer Mark Massey wanted to change the narrative around what it means to be an ‘Essex Girl’.

For his project Essexism, his main objective was to challenge stereotypes, ones that even find themselves in the dictionary. He tells me, ‘On a visit to my local library, I found that at least three dictionaries still contained definitions of “Essex Girl” that().”