Dean Chapman
<p>Photographer's website: www.deanchapmanphotos.com</p>Shifting Ground
from: Photography
Young people’s lives in South West Durham, documented as part of Side’s Coalfield Stories programme of production, 1999/2000. The work is linked to the photographer's Field's Chip Shop and Aftermath.
Burma: Darkness in the Golden Land
from: Photography
Documentation of life in Burma under the junta that seized power in 1988. The photographs were taken between 1990 and 2001, part of the same engagement that led to Dean Chapman's book and exhibition, Karenni.
Aftermath: Foot and Mouth in Tow Law
from: Photography
A narrative from Dean Chapman's 'Shifting Ground' work, documenting South West Durham for Amber's 'Coalfield Stories', which looks at the aftermath of the 2001 foot & mouth epidemic and the impact of the Inkerman Burial Site on Tow Law.
Field's Chip Shop
from: Photography
In Esh Winning, the last coalfired chip shop in County Durham, documented as part of Shifting Ground, the photographer’s Coalfield Stories survey of South and South West Durham, 2003.
Burma, Exiles from the Golden Land
from: Photography
Successive Burmese military dictatorships have made the once prosperous southeast Asian nation one of the world's most impoverished failed states. Opposition forces are not tolerated. Pro-democracy uprisings have been answered with bloody and brutal clampdowns in which unknown numbers have been imprisoned, tortured, disappeared or murdered. For those who chose to flee, refuge in a developed nation, such as the UK, can provide a new beginnings and unparalleled opportunities, but the instinct to campaign and work for regime change and democracy in Burma remains undimmed.