Dee Ramadan

The Harbour

The Harbour is a portrait project I’ve been working on for the last year and I am continuing into 2020 working with and collaborating with Lambeth Harbour. The Harbour is a drop in centre in Brixton, London for people recovering from substance abuse – helping with recovery, advice and support. The portraits feature people whose lives revolve around the centre, from staff members, peer mentors (advanced recovery) and service users (beginning recovery). The photographs are purposefully void of names or roles – this not only helps people maintain a level of anonymity, but also removes them from the most immediate stereotyping and to help reveal the indiscriminate nature of addiction. I set up a studio and shoot monthly portrait sessions in the Harbour and so far I have shot around 50 individuals, some come repeatedly for portraits, some I only see once. Because of the nature of the service, unless I’m photographing a staff member or peer mentor, I never quite know if I will see that person again.

Photographer

Dee Ramadan

Dee is a London based portrait photographer with over a decade of experience in commercial advertising and editorial. The focus of his personal work is socially engaged projects and social documentary, working with people in their environments, subcultures and dystopian parallel universes.

His most recent personal work has been exhibited in the Nope to Hope, Art vs Arms, Oil & injustice exhibition and has also been included in the recent Extinction Rebellion Hand Book. Dee has a small studio in Brixton, but you'll mostly find him on location - anywhere from a Patagonian ranch to a South London multi-storey car park.

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