Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast

The idea was to show that these two communities in Belfast who seem to have irreconcilable differences, are more similar than they’d both like to admit. While they still stick to their own symbols of their identity and tradition, they wear the same clothes, have the same haircuts, listen to the same music, drink the same beer, take the same drugs and often the same worries such as violence, unemployment, social discrimination and therefore, lack of prospects. For myself the work is deeply linked to questions that Belfast-born writer Paul McVeigh speaks out: „ Are you born or do you become your nationality? Is it something from which you can’t escape and, if so, is nationality a kind of prison?“It’ll be wonderful to continue this work with the teenagers from these communitites for some more years.