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Pitts stops

family of four take a selfie by the signpost for Land’s End; a man looks through a rain-dappled window on Carnaby Street in London; Eunice Olumide waits in the wind by an Edinburgh bus stop; four friends walk past the former premises of the Horse & Lion Pub in Sheffield. The photographs are taken by Sheffield-born photographer and writer Johny Pitts, who is also curator of the European Network and the author of (Penguin Random House). The book won the 2020 Jhalak Prize, the 2020 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing, and is the recipient of the 2021 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.

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