Wee Muckers

Toby Binder

 2021 — Belfast, Northern Ireland

About this series

» If I had been born at the top of my street, behind the corrugated-iron border, I would have been British. Incredible to think. My whole idea of myself, the attachments made to a culture, heritage, religion, nationalism and politics are all an accident of birth. I was one street away from being born my ‘enemy’«. Belfast-born novelist Paul McVeigh.
Photographer Toby Binder has been documenting the daily life of teenagers in British working-class communities for more than a decade. After the Brexit referendum he focussed his work on Belfast in Northern Ireland. There is a serious concern that Brexit will threaten the Peace Agreement of 1998 that ended the armed conflict between Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists who live in homogeneous neighborhoods that are divided by walls till today. But problems they struggle with are similar – no matter which side of the Peace Walls they live on.

Photographer: Toby Binder
Nationality: German
Based in: Argentina – Germany
Website: www.toby-binder.de
Instagram: @tobybinderphotography

Swabian documentary photographer who believes he is Scottish-Argentinean and once wanted to become a professional football player. Didn’t work out.