previouse work

Archive of past successful work from 2006 with links

Photoshelter link: >

http://kirkellingham.photoshelter.com/

Blood & water

These photographs and slideshow is representative of my recent project, taken over a three year period, about my own family.
It concerns the fragmentation affecting them now as my Mother and Father embark on retirement and my three brothers as well as myself drifting away and continuing our separate lives. It also concerns my Mothers Father who is 87 but is now suffering from dimentia and the estranged relationship between him and my Mother.

award > http://www.itsweb.org/jsp/en/collectiondata/talentID_258_collectionID_7_conctype_2.jsp

video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2O-Eq7usY

Four Floors in Bielany - 2010

Every day dozens of Chechens try to escape the Putin-proclaimed happy paradise in Chechnya by entering the European Union illegally via the border with Ukraine or Belarus.Despite the news of general peace and prosperity widely circulated by the news media in the Chechen Republic, more and more people dream of leaving the allegedly problem-free Chechnya.

Book > http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/4388697-untitled

Video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mrQEJVA5mw

Published > http://www.privatephotoreview.com/private-photographers/kirk-ellingham-four-floors-in-bielany-chechen-refugees-in-warsaw/

The Last Village

Bohoniki is a small, peaceful village not far from Sokolka in the east of Poland. Few people would have heard about it be it not for one fact: it was in this area that, in 1679, 30 Tatar soldiers were granted land for their faithful service to the Polish King Jan III Sobiesk. Bohoniki is the last Tatar village before the border with Belarus.There are now only six Tatar families living in Bohoniki, but, considering that the village does not comprise more than 30 houses, they make up about a fifth of the local population. It is their Mosque that makes the village famous and attracts visitors from all over Poland and abroad.