Between 2003 and 2007, photographer Janine Wiedel documented the final years of London’s longest running squat. St Agnes Place—a quiet South London back street—was occupied for over 35-years and was home to a wide and diverse range of people and included the Rastafarian Headquarters. In Wiedel’s new book her photographs are combined with the stories of those who inhabited one of Britain’s most distinctive communities.

Documentary photographer and visual anthropologist Janine Wiedel has concentrated throughout her career on long-term projects focusing on groups struggling to survive against the pressures of mainstream society. These have mainly become major exhibitions and publications.

Janine has been based in London since 1970. From the late 1960s her work has focused on issues of social concern ranging from the Black Panther and Berkeley Riots (1968-9), to Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (1983-4), the Calais Jungle and Grande-Synthe Refugee Camps (2016). Wiedel’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Stoke-on-Trent City Museum & Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery and included in group exhibitions at  Whitechapel Gallery, Belfast Museum, The ICA, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Martin Parr Foundation, Turner Contemporary and National Galleries of Scotland amongst others. Wiedel’s work is held by collections including Arts Council of Great Britian, MoMA, New York; V&A National Art Library, and Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol.