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Alex, playing football in the garden. Summer, 2014. by @michaelalberry

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Pa, back and forth by @michaelalberry

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4 months ago

Praise be the inelegance of ordinary love - Ingrid de Kok

Some notes from the past twelve months by @michaelalberry

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5 months ago

Watching Nigel Farage’s ‘Brexit Day’ speech, Parliament Square, London. 31st January 2020. by @michaelalberry

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6 months ago

Stretching

Backdrop - One Rainy Day

We went to the park in the rain with Álvaro Martínez, @billybarraclough, Tayla Nebesky @oliver.tooke, @chun_chien_shih, @harryflook with a black backdrop and a flash

Published by @besidespress by @michaelalberry

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Assent is currently in @der_greif ‘Architectures of Power’, curated by @sarkerprotick and @donaldweber.

Copies of the book are still available @besidespress website by @michaelalberry

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a year ago

Self portrait trudge through a picture, November 2015

Studio @josh_m_hollingshead !! by @michaelalberry

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My new book, Assent, is now available on the @besidespress website. I am very happy to be able to share it

The book is comprised of a series of portraits I made in one evening at the ‘Kill the Bill’ protest in Bristol, set against the text of the Bill the protest opposed. The Bill granted police greater powers to restrict public demonstrations and arrest peaceful protesters in the UK. We now see this law being used a lot (especially this year), since its ’Royal Assent’ in 2022.

On that evening, amidst violent clashes between police and people protesting the bill, I felt drawn by the tension of what each police officer embodies, being both citizens themselves, but also agents of state power. It reminded me of Sarte’s ‘bad faith’; an idea about the ways people over-identify with the institutional roles they perform in society - in this case a performance of authority, made concrete through action in moments like a protest. This book of portraits aimed to make a kind of study through that lens.

See the @besidespress website for more info or to order one of 50 copies of the book…

ASSENT
2025
First edition of 50 copies
Size 205x230mm
50 pages
French-folded
Screw post bound
Screen-printed softcover
Signed and numbered

Edited, designed & published by Besides Press

Thanks to @harryflook, @tomboothwoodger, @ollieculli and @alejandroacin_ for their encouragement and ideas that shaped the book. by @michaelalberry

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NEW: Assent, by @michaelalberry, is now available from our website (link in bio).

Assent is a book of portraits of riot police officers made at the Kill the Bill protests against the British Government’s ‘Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’ — legislation designed to extend police powers to stop peaceful protest. The Bill was passed into law through its ‘Royal Assent’ in 2022 and is widely employed by police forces in the UK today.

On the evening of 21 March 2021, after thousands attended a peaceful demonstration against the Bill, violence erupted in clashes between police and protesters outside Bristol’s central police station.

Photographing through riot shields and visors, Alberry found faces caught between aggression, fatigue, and mingling doubt. Drawing on Sartre’s concept of bad faith, the book examines how individuals internalise the institutional roles they perform — how personal conscience becomes subsumed by duty to state authority.

When first opened, the book’s French-folded pages make only the text of the Bill visible. To reach the portraits of those it empowers, the reader must cut open each sealed page — a deliberate act that exposes the fragile, conflicted humanity beneath the machinery of law.

Size 205x230mm
50 pages
French-folded
Screw post bound
Screen-printed softcover
First edition of 50 copies
Signed and numbered

Edited, designed & published by Besides Press

#new #photobook #besidespress #michaelalberry #protest #protestbook #assent by @michaelalberry

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Summer in Slovakia with family Kandrač ❤️ Now more than 13 years since we met in a church one day in 2012. A friendship that has grown out of photography and making pictures together… 🏠 by @michaelalberry

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Dreamlines @bristolmuseums

This weekend is the last chance to see the final exhibition @bristolmuseums. The show includes work by many photographers and artists I respect so much. I’m proud to have been a part of this project.

Viewed all together, Dreamlines is a contemporary depiction of daily life and culture in Bristol, UK.

The work was made over a summer on streets around the city in collaboration with local people and social groups. The project culminated in talks, community meals and exhibitions locally.

Don’t miss this last chance to see the whole project all together - it closes end of Sunday. taken in Bristol, United Kingdom by @michaelalberry

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a year ago

Growing despite all odds

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Image from the @brsphotofest commission, Dreamlines.

This weekend is the last chance to see the final exhibition @bristolmuseums. The show includes work by many photographers and artists I respect so much. I’m proud to have been a part of this project.

Viewed all together, Dreamlines is a contemporary depiction of daily life and culture in Bristol, UK.

The work was made over a summer on streets around the city in collaboration with local people and social groups. The project culminated in talks, community meals and exhibitions locally.

Don’t miss this last chance to see the whole project all together - it closes end of Sunday. by @michaelalberry

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