When Does a Monument End? Colston and the Politics of Time in Bristol
Lily Wells
BSc Human Science
Lily Wells on Bristol’s toppled Colston statue, a colonial artefact with an authorship deeply “layered and contested.”
The 80s won’t return my calls
Joe Painter
PhD Student, NERC London DPT
A poem of nostalgia, coiled around London’s derelict phone booths.
Mothers
Yuting Fu
MSc Social and Cultural Anthropology
A photo essay on motherhood and daughterhood, holding poetry, memories, and correspondence.
A slight detour through the Brunswick
Alessandro Patel
BSc Anthropology
A poem pacing through the multi-layered temporality of the Brunswick Centre, through the perspective of a student en route to their lecture.
Memory Murmur
Hyden (Ke Shi)
MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film
Excerpts from a multimodal zine exploring temporality through two veteran oak trees on Sandy Heath, England.
Home: a Triptych
April (Junhan) Huang
BA Media
A short piece of autoethnographic non-fiction in three parts, by an international student moving between China and the UK.
2026 Anthropolitan Picture Competition Shortlisters
See the shortlist of our 2026 Picture Competition!
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