This project explores how some of the most frail and vulnerable members of our community are living at home at the end of their lives.
British photographer Tom Hunter has collaborated with the service users of St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and they have made a series of five films that make a significant contribution to the debate about how people are living with terminal illness in the 21st century.
Shown here are a series of photographic portraits that are the starting point of the five films. These still portraits are accompanied by the voices of the hospice participants as they speak about the relationship between their past lives and the reality of a confined life in the present. Their words also form the soundtrack to the films which will be screened at the museum during three special events on 19 June, 3 July, 13 July and at the Hackney Empire as part of their Spice Festival on 26 July 2008.
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