ZEKE Fall 2019

YOUTH OF
BELFAST
Photographs by Toby Binder
Northern Ireland will have to
leave the European Union due
to UK’s Brexit referendum in
2016, although a majority of its
citizens voted to remain. While
the local Protestant Unionists
voted to leave, the Catholic Nationalists
wanted to remain within the EU.
This photo essay covers the situation
of young people in Catholic and
Protestant neighborhoods of Belfast.
It shows that kids in Northern Ireland
often suffer the same problems no matter
if they live on one or the other side of
the wall: unemployment, drug abuse,
violence and lack of perspectives are
often omnipresent.
Toby Binder, born in 1977 in
Germany, studied at the Stuttgart State
Academy of Art and Design. He focused
his photography on social, environmental
and political topics. Now based
in Argentina and Germany, he works
on assignments and personal projects
where he finds his topics in post-war
and crisis situations as well as in the
daily life of people.
His work is patient and intimate,
without being pervasive and has been
awarded internationally: the Nannen-
Preis in 2017, the Sony World Photo
Awards in 2017 and 2019, and the
Philip Jones Griffiths Award in 2018.
In that year, he received an Honorable
Mention at the UNICEF Photo of the
Year.
His work is published by Stern,
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, die
Zeit, Greenpeace Magazin, Amnesty
Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and
others.
2 / ZEKE APRIL FALL 2019 2015