Photojournals
Photojournalism by Leo Garbutt
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Photojournal: Barcelona, Spain
It’s September, yet peak holiday season in Barcelona is far from over. Sunlight is faded but the warmth of summer lingers on. The only sign that another season is approaching is in the subtle darkening of the leaves, and those now fallen that curl and crunch under foot. I’m standing on a narrow balcony that…
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Photojournal: Atacama Desert, Chile
I arrive into Calama airport in the late afternoon on my way to San Pedro de Atacama. It is July 2013, but the Southern Hemisphere’s winter is hardly felt this close to the equator. A direct bus to the town is too expensive so I am advised to take a taxi into Calama and then…
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Photojournal: The Real Junk Food Project – waste, poverty and revolution
The Real Junk Food Café is situated in Armley, a short bus ride south west from Leeds City Centre. Entering the town, it is easy to lose count of how many factory buildings had been abandoned, bordered up and draped in rows of barbed wire. The town is like many that were left exposed by…
1980s, adam smith, armley, austerity, bedroom tax, community, consumption, cooking, crops, distribution, eviction, food, food bank, food security, genetically modified, global warming, GMO, homeless, industry, Leeds, Leo Garbutt, politics, production, real junk food project, revolution, shelter, shortages, skip kitchen, social cohesion, solidarity, spirit, sustainable living, waste, westminster
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Photojournal: Shipping from campus to the East
It is a quiet, sunny September morning and a full size shipping container is blocking the entrance to my house. A little over twenty men have gathered on a narrow campus road, forming a human chain into a ground floor bedroom next door. I look up into the rusting green container to see a man…
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Photojournal: Cakes, campaigns and overcoming sexism
Hundreds have turned out for LUU FemSoc’s first Feminist Jamboree, held at Leeds University Union. As well as a strong northern contingent of feminists in attendance – including those from Liverpool, Hull and Manchester – many have woken up in the early hours of the morning to travel from as far as London, Brighton and…
cakes, campaigns, conference, feminism, femjam14, gay, interviews, jamboree, Leeds, Leeds Student, leeds university union, lesbian, lgbt, luu, male feminism, men, misogyny, newspaper, photojournal, politics, president, putin, rainbow, rights, Russia, sexism, Sochi, student, tequila, top post, winter olympics, women
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Photojournal: Staff on strike – “It’s the last resort today”
In December 2013, staff from Leeds University, Leeds Met and other institutions went on strike for the second time since the start of the academic year. With students facing another day of cancelled lectures, LS Head of Photography Leo Garbutt caught up with staff and students and asked why we should care about staff pay.…
action, capitalism, christmas, consumerism, cuts, demands, education, elitism, FBU, fees, further, higher, industrial, law, Leeds, luu, met, metropolitan, mince, pay, pies, politics, protest, sector, solidarity, strike, students, top post, UCU, undergraduate, UNISON, UNITE, university
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Photojournal: Leeds higher education strike
Staff at the University of Leeds went on strike on Thursday 31st October in protest over pay and cuts to higher education. They proceeded to join striking staff from Leeds Met and other members of the public on a march towards Victoria Square. LS Head of Photography Leo Garbutt was there and brings you a…
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Photojournal: Buenos Aires, Argentina
It’s 6am and LAN Airlines Flight #461 from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Aires is turbulently scaling the Andes Mountains. As the sun rises and illuminates their peaks, long shadows are cast through the snow. Sat next to the plane wing, I’m frustrated by my view being cut in half, especially when I see an…
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