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A generation between Peace Agreement and Brexit
– daily life of teenagers in Belfast
“If I had been born at the top of my street, behind the corrugated-iron border, I would
have been British. Incredible to think. My whole idea of myself, the attachments
made to a culture, heritage, religion, nationalism and politics are all an accident of
birth. I was one street away from being born my ‘enemy’.”
Paul McVeigh, Belfast-born writer and author ofThe Good Son
by Toby Binder
Northern Ireland will have to leave the European Union due to UK’s Brexit although the majority of its citizens voted to
remain. There is a serious concern that Brexit will threaten the Peace Agreement of 1998 that ended the armed conflict
between Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists who live in homogeneous neighborhoods that are divided by
walls till today. Photographer Toby Binder has been documenting the daily life of teenagers in British working-class
communities for more than a decade. After the Brexit referendum he focussed his work on Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Cole, SANDY ROW © Toby Binder
Boys drinking beer and arguing, SANDY ROW © Toby Binder
Brendan behind a police line on Trinity Street, CARRICK HILL © Toby Binder
Boy playing football in front of a Union Jack painted on the wall, SHANKILL © Toby Binder
Sophie and Jade, CLONARD© Toby Binder
Bonfire preparations at Conway Street, SHANKILL © Toby Binder
Boys on a wasteland at Lanark Way, SHANKILL © Toby Binder
Tiernan, CLONARD © Toby Binder
Rachel running past police vehicles, Stanhope Street, CARRICK HILL © Toby Binder
Church at McAdam Park, SANDY ROW © Toby Binder