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!
Time, Symbols, and Belonging: Chinese Cultural Presence in the London New Year’s Day Parade
Yujie Wang
For Yujie and other students who have come to London from China, the New Year’s Parade in London offers symbols of home, and “the gentlest meaning of temporality”.
Anthropolitan 