I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed, but all I could do was get drunk again Graphic This newspaper has been printed

This newspaper has been printed in an edition of one thousand copies and combines photos from the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award Exhibition 2017

Raising your eyes you glimpse entities you would have never brought to light before

but transmitting the experience and awareness of the dangers of the world is more complicated

Ugo La Pietra drew inspiration from his notes and photo shoots taken in 1974

and from providence

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed, but all I could do was get drunk again Graphic This newspaper has been printedWinner of the 2015 MACK First Book Award I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed, but all I could do was to get drunk again is a diary of sorts, following invisible men, down piss alleyways and into empty bars. The photographer accompanies the seekers of oblivion, their lopsided faces caught between ecstasy and apathy, their mouths chasing the numbness of inebriation. This is Ballinasloe, a sandstone town on the River Suck in the easternmost