Tom Hunter's most famous image is of a young woman by a window, reading a letter. It is called
'Woman reading a Possession Order' and comes from a series titled
Persons Unknown. At the time, he was himself living in a squat and the woman was his next-door neighbour. He was trying to make an image that expressly contradicted the politically inspired propaganda of the time, which depicted squatters as inherently antisocial troublemakers.
One morning, letters arrived from the local council, addressed to “persons unknown”, telling them they were being evicted. Remarkably, his photograph attracted so much attention that the planned demolition of the houses they were occupying never went ahead...
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That's exactly what this project is about.
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