Leave to Remain A Snapshot of Brexit

Illustrated by a range of work by artists including Cornelia Parker, Wolfgang Tillmans, David Shrigley, Tacita Dean and Jeremy Deller as well as the satirists Cold War Steve and Led By Donkeys, this book explores the role of the photograph in the ongoing consequences of Britain’ s decision to leave the EU. From Jeremy Deller’ s image of musicians protesting outside the House of Commons, through to Mark Duffy’ s extraordinary photos of heated government debates, to moving portraits of those whose lives have been changed immeasurably, this offers insight into our society and how artists can intervene in political debate. It offers an original, visually stimulating examination of the issues, revealing how photography can capture and memorialise key moments in our history.

Noni Stacey is a visiting tutor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), and author of Photography of Protest and Community: The Radical Collectives of the 1970s, also published by Lund Humphries. She was awarded a PhD at University of the Arts London in 2017. She has previously worked as a freelance picture editor and researcher for publications such as The Guardian and The Independent on Sunday and as a TV news producer and journalist.

Chapter 1: Dissent, Protest and Resistance amid the ‘ sunlit uplands’ . Chapter 2: Border Force[d] and identity. Chapter 3: Fairy tales, oligarchs, and billionaires. Chapter 4: Building bridges