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Jem Bartholomew is an award-winning freelance reporter, with a focus on narrative nonfiction stories about poverty and social exclusion.
Portrait by Sophie Davidson ©
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Jem Bartholomew is an award-winning freelance reporter, with a focus on narrative nonfiction stories about poverty and social exclusion.
Portrait by Sophie Davidson ©
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Kirsty Mackay’s The Magic Money Tree
Jem recently wrote an afterword essay for The Magic Money Tree, a photobook by the documentary photographer Kirsty Mackay (Bluecoat Press, 2024), about the cost of living crisis.
You can buy the book here.
Praise for Kirsty Mackay’s The Magic Money Tree:
Photographs that “bear witness to the reality of living in times of hardship and poverty. ... Look again at Kirsty’s pictures, it is time we recognised our collective strength and made a few changes.” — Ken Loach, film director
“Shooting portraits and documentary images, Mackay tackles poverty without demonising or patronising the people who face it.” — Photography+
“An unflinching look at the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on communities in the Black Country, South Shields, and Bristol. But this is by no means 'poverty porn'. In fact, the way Kirsty went about making the book is more about helping the people involved rather than exploiting them.” — Creative Boom
©2024 Bluecoat
Jem recently wrote an afterword essay for The Magic Money Tree, a photobook by the documentary photographer Kirsty Mackay (Bluecoat Press, 2024), about the cost of living crisis.
You can buy the book here.
Praise for Kirsty Mackay’s The Magic Money Tree:
Photographs that “bear witness to the reality of living in times of hardship and poverty. ... Look again at Kirsty’s pictures, it is time we recognised our collective strength and made a few changes.” — Ken Loach, film director
“Shooting portraits and documentary images, Mackay tackles poverty without demonising or patronising the people who face it.” — Photography+
“An unflinching look at the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on communities in the Black Country, South Shields, and Bristol. But this is by no means 'poverty porn'. In fact, the way Kirsty went about making the book is more about helping the people involved rather than exploiting them.” — Creative Boom
©2024 Bluecoat