Richard Collins
The Inhabitants
One June morning my wife and I watched from the kitchen window as a juvenile blackbird hopped around the garden. She spotted the only fully ripe strawberry in our garden, one we had been anticipating harvesting for ourselves. After a few tentative, exploratory pecks she devoured the entire thing with enthusiastic gusto. There was a moment, just as the blackbird scrutinized the fruit but before she decided to eat it, when we could have opened the back door to frighten her away. It was a moment of ambivalence that is fundamental to discussions around food production and the environment. Because a blackbird that eats strawberries also eats snails, and a human that eats strawberries also eats salad.
Richard Collins • Pippa Healy • Laetitia Kamayi • Reka Komoli • Katie Longley • Thomas Nicolaou • Anthony Prevost • Blerim Racaj • Catherine Sanderson • Jennifer Wang Lei • Huang Yu •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Leeds College of Art
MA Creative Practice
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography