Freedom: Northern Ireland 1980-1981

Title: Freedom: Northern Ireland 1980-1981

Photographer(s): Yan Morvan

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Publisher(s): Archives Yan Morvan, Belfast, North Ireland

Year: 2025

Print run: 1000

Language(s): English

Pages: 144

Size: 26 x 32 cm

Binding: Softcover with dust jacket

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Print: MAS Matbaa, Istanbul, Turkey

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Noth Ireland, 1980-1981

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This book marks the beginning of the second season of the Archive of the great photographer Yan Morvan, which was left unresolved in 2024 at the end of the first season, as described by the Yan Morvan Archive, which manages his vast photographic archive of images taken by Yan as a photojournalist around the world. The book is a tribute and a total immersion in Belfast and other cities in Northern Ireland in 1981, documenting the transitional period marked by the deaths of Bobby Sands and his comrades following their hunger strike. Marches, demonstrations, riots, and repression intertwine in a Belfast and its surroundings that are both sorrowful and oppressive.

Another historic moment captured through Yan Morvan’s keen eye. For over 50 years, his lens has immortalized pivotal events, conflicts, and subcultures around the world with unwavering honesty. As the Archive writes: Yan Morvan is more than a collection of images; he is a living testament to memory.