PORTRAITS OF A NATION
Sep 13, 2021
3 minutes
Image: Faraz Pourreza
Image: Margaret Mitchell
Image: Amara Eno
Image: Arpita Shah
Image: Kirsty Mackay
Image: Alicia Bruce
Image: Andy Aitchison
Image: Jim Mortram
London, 1982. I am five years old. A mixed-race only child in a single-parent family from a council estate in pre-gentrification Peckham.
My understanding of what it means to be British is limited to patriotic cliches and caricatures. The Second World War ended more than three decades ago, yet for the dads and grandads and the boys waging
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