He is an Irish born photographer and an independent photojournalist who exclusively works with New York Times.
He has created the famous work ‘The battle of Mosul’, ‘Seeking shelter’ for the UNHCR ‘Dreams of a homeland etc’.
SEEKING SHELTER
The Side gallery exhibition was about ‘Seeking shelter’.
Walking into the the gallery all the images were very unique but those that stood out before were the extremely large pieces. It was like a cry for help from the victims, they wanted to be saved from the pain, death, destruction, injustice and the captivity of this war.
Looking at this body immediately gets to you in a very sympathetic way. In a way, you only understand this type of pain if you have been in such a situation.
The images hold a type of rawness that you wish that they were film stills. Why? Because you do not want to even imagine that this is someones reality. What about the 97 year old man who suffered a stroke 3 months ago? How will he run or try to survive? Or the pregnant woman with a difficult pregnancy and is on bedrest?
In this dire time in the British history with Brexit happening, this body of work explains just why it is humane to embrace those in need. People come here not because they wanted to but because it was literally a choice between life and death. Pricketts work connects the people from here the contrast in the type of life that other people who live in war areas experience.
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