Honorable Mention / 2023 / Press / Political

• Photographer
  Luke Smith, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Luke Smith Photography

In 2020 suicide rates had fallen for the first time in 5 years however by 2022 numbers had drastically increased. Within this period of time we witnessed Covid 19. The media saturated people with propaganda terrorising the UK public with panic stricken advertisement of dying people, with guilt latent text telling people to “look her in the eyes and tell her you never bend the rules”. The irony was the UK government were having drunken Christmas parties clearly not worried of catching Covid 19 whilst other people of all ages took their lives due to the government restrictions imposed upon them