‘WELCOME TO HOLBECK’ BOOK
£15.00
TRIGGER WARNING: CONTAINS NUDITY AND SENSITIVE SUBJECTS.
ABOUT THE PROJECT -
From 2017 - 2019 Photographer and Artist BUNCITY took to the streets to document and capture a critical and social condition that has been causing controversy in the media and with local residents.
Holbeck, known as the UK's first legal Red Light District, picked up attention when the BBC decided to create a 13 part series in 2016. As local to the area, grasped by the way the series was presented and decided to delve in deeper to uncover the truth about the scheme.
What was supposed to be controlled, and create safe spaces for women to work was actually the complete opposite. Only months after the 'Managed Approach' was implemented a woman lost her life at the hands of a brutal attack from a Curb crawler paying for her services. Unfortunately, this is not the first of this kind of crime in Holbeck.
The women who work in the area have often admitted that the regulating authorities turn a blind eye to reports of abuse or harassment received by the people who visit them.
BUNCITY visited the popular streets to capture and document the conditions these women have to endure, in a raw and unfiltered light; curating the images into a 135-page photo-documentary book.
The findings are disturbing, uncomfortable, and eye-opening.