Liz Hingley
UK
Under Gods: stories from the Soho Road
Under Gods: stories from the Soho Road
Liz Hingley presents the multifaceted colourful world of Soho Road in Birmingham. The city in which she grew up is now home to over 90 different nationalities. Between 2007-2009, Liz investigated urban faith to create a lasting documentation of the cities rich cultural diversities and religious practices.
The photographs intimately document the different communities along this one road whilst at the same time speaking about wider issues in contemporary urban experience such as immigration, secularism and religious revival.
Liz Hingley
Liz Hingley is a renowned photographer, researcher and member of Agence Vu. She holds a first class BA Honours in Photography and an MSc in Social Anthropology with distinction from University College London. Her work has received numerous awards including the Getty Image Grant, Prix Virginia and Photophilanthropy Activist Award. During a two-year scholarship with Fabrica in Italy she made the work “ Under Gods ” which was published by Dewi Lewis in 2011 and became an internationally touring solo exhibition.
She moved to Shanghai in 2013 to continue her work on multi-faith urban communities at the invitation of the Ricci Institute at Fudan University and as a visiting scholar of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. During Paris Photo 2013 her work ‘End Of Lines’ was exhibited and published as the book ‘Shanghai’ for the Portraits De Villes series designed by Be-Poles.
