Writer, editor, and publisher Lillian Wilkie speaks to artists Chad Alexander and Anselm Ebulue about how they use photography to explore the connections between people and their environments, and the tensions between place and identity. Drawing on Alexander’s project Inquiry, on display at this year’s edition of Peckham 24, as well as Ebulue’s Whims of the Rye, the conversation further engages with questions of what it means to make work within and around your own communities, and how memories of the past continue to shape the present.

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Chad Alexander is an artist from Northern Ireland who works on long-term photographic projects and creative commissions. His practice explores the connections between people and their environments, exploring the tensions and harmonies between place and identity. Drawing on his lived experience, Alexander explores the entanglement of people, history, and place, revealing how the legacy of conflict continues to permeate everyday life in subtle but persistent ways.

Anselm Ebulue is an artist and educator based in London. He was a winner in the 2018 and 2020 Portrait of Britain award and was awarded a scholarship for the LCC x Magnum Documentary Photography Short Course. He graduated from the MA Photojournalism and Documentary course at the London College of Communication in 2023. His work has featured in a variety of publications. Clients include The Guardian and Observer, The Modern House, The New Yorker, Financial Times, Time Out Magazine and Red Bull.

Lillian Wilkie is a writer, editor and publisher based in London and East Sussex. Her practice and research focus on photography as a liberatory practice, especially within marginalised communities; the politics and affects of self-publishing and DIY book cultures; critical fashion practices; and representations of class and labour struggle.