When We’re Smiling
Do photographs of working-class people have to be sombre, serious and vaguely threatening? Not if Carmina Ripollès is taking the pictures, they don’t. Here’s her show of smiles from the past year to celebrate the season of joy.
Photography
The Thin Places of the South Wales Valleys
A 25-year love affair that started in a nightclub, and ended in communion with the history of a people.
The Fugitives
**“In seaside towns, you find most people have come to escape something. That’s what brought me too, really.”** Photographer Carmina Ripollés on finding friendship among the sandcastles, arcades and ice-creams
A Class of Our Own
The world needs more working-class writers. The Bee is going to find, nurture and publish them.
