Ivor Prickett

With over fifty photographs taken in conflict zones from the Balkans in 2006 to Ukraine in 2022, No Home From War is the most significant collection of Prickett's work to date. He strives to convey and denounce the effects of war on the civilian population - on the people whose lives it ravages and uproots, whatever side they may be on.
Initially focused on the private, domestic sphere of war's long-term social and humanitarian consequences, Prickett's gaze has shifted over the years towards places of forced migration and lands where people seek refuge, and then to the front lines of war zones. The home - both a real place, and a pivotal inner space of protection, identity and rootedness - is a central theme that crops up in different forms throughout his work. The continuity and power of domestic life, even under extreme circumstances, are elements that have always fascinated this photographer.
Our impression that the photographs are somehow staged clashes with our awareness that the subjects are dramatically real, in a dissonance that elevates these fragments of worlds to universal metaphors and urges us to take a stance.