From the OCA Blog: The Big Issue in the North – 600 photographs later

A bit of background on the publication and initiative that published four of my images in 2016:

Thanks to the generosity of the editor of independent street paper The Big Issue in the North, more than 600 photographs by around 100 OCA photography students have featured in the magazine. OCA’s partnership with the magazine began in 2011. Now that we have become part of UCA and no longer have the charitable status we had back then, we’ve agreed not to continue the partnership in 2017.

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The Big Issue in the North has a circulation of over 20,000. It’s sold on the streets of towns and cities in the north of England (Lancashire and Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East) by vendors who want to earn a living to help them get off the streets. The partnership has given OCA students the opportunity to bring their work to a wider audience and exposed the readers of the magazine to the possibilities of photography they may not previously have considered. 

More at the link.

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