{"id":36092,"date":"2026-05-14T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:12:08","slug":"sophie-greens-maximalist-technicolour-vision-of-britains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36092\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Green\u2019s maximalist, technicolour vision of Britain\u2019s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAt Traveller horse fairs, I\u2019ve seen how these gatherings continue to function as social and cultural anchors, even under external pressures such as policing and regulation, which keep shutting the fairs down. In church congregations like the Aladura spiritualist churches I\u2019ve documented, multi-generational communities continue to gather weekly, sustaining ritual, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/topic\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a>, and collective worship as a\u00a0living practice despite the widespread gentrification of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/celebrating-daily-life-and-diversity-in-southeast-london\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South London<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At a\u00a0time of British discontent, Green feels it is even more vital to connect with stories of communities that flourish through togetherness and shared connection. \u200b\u201cEven in an increasingly individualised society,\u201d she adds. \u200b\u201cPeople still seek physical spaces to gather, celebrate and connect to something larger than themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/martinparrfoundation.org\/exhibitions\/tangerine-dreams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tangerine Dreams: Rituals of Belonging in Contemporary British Life<\/a> by Sophie Green is on view at the Martin Parr Foundation from\u00a0June 4\u00a0until September 6,\u00a02026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Buy your copy of Huck 83 <a href=\"https:\/\/huck.imbmsubscriptions.com\/huckcurrentissue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Enjoyed this article? Follow Huck on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/huckmagazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> for more from the cutting edge of sport, music and counterculture.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Support stories like this by becoming a\u00a0member of <a href=\"https:\/\/steadyhq.com\/en\/club-huck\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Club Huck<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt Traveller horse fairs, I\u2019ve seen how these gatherings continue to function as social and cultural anchors, even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,16828,16824,16818,16819,16825,16823,16827,16822,16826,16816,16820,14870,16817,16821,1197],"class_list":{"0":"post-36092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-celebrates","10":"tag-collaged","11":"tag-decade","12":"tag-documenting","13":"tag-fabric","14":"tag-form","15":"tag-foundation","16":"tag-gatherings","17":"tag-parr","18":"tag-photographer","19":"tag-rituals","20":"tag-social","21":"tag-spent","22":"tag-subcultures","23":"tag-work"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116572398737129025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}