Mahtab Hussain St. George's Cross, Union Jack and Two Asians. 2010.
"The United Kingdom, a union of nations forged centuries ago, and British identity too, is currently in a state of confusion as Brexit threaten
(...) s; increasing pressure from growing white nationalism weighs heavily into the mess. Against this backdrop, I've been focused on photographing young Muslim men, second- and third-generation immigrants to the U.K., who, caught in the crosshairs of traditional Islam and permissive British youth culture, are forging a distinct subculture of their own. These two men, standing as they do, symbolize the inevitable, that they too are the embodiment of the U.K."
- Mahtab Hussain
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