{"product_id":"tim-richmond-love-bites","title":"Tim Richmond: Love Bites","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRichmond’s elegiac, sombre ode to a coastal stretch of the Bristol Channel poetically weaves together lives hit by decades of austerity and isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlong this twenty-mile stretch of one of the world's longest coastal mudflats, Richmond’s \u003cem\u003eLove Bites \u003c\/em\u003eencounters those attempting to find meaning and pleasure within small-town England. Beneath everyday photographs of food banks, punks, pleasure arcades, swingers’ clubs, shelters and new-build houses, Richmond finds a waning unease to his subjects: a listless microcosm of post-austerity, post-Brexit Britain. \u003ci\u003eLove Bites\u003c\/i\u003e allows these tensions to simmer on the surface: food poverty, isolation, commercial decline, housing precarity, homelessness, unfulfilled desire and longing mingle in the overcast, wide skies of the channel and its flat, sprawling coastline.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eContinuing in a long line of British photographers that weave poetry and lyricism into social documentary projects, Richmond uses a delicate colour palette and sympathetic lens to capture the everyday realities of isolation and desire in this corner of Southwest England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loose Joints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555516256313,"sku":"210000001644","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/mendo-tim-richard-love-bites-4.jpg?v=1790278934","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/tim-richmond-love-bites","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}