Erik van Cuyk: I don’t fold under pressure being doing things including the Mayan creation story

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First published: 2021

Erik van Cuyk: I don’t fold under pressure being doing things including the Mayan creation storyPhotographer Erik van Cuyk traveled to South London neighbourhoods like Peckham, Brixton, and Croydon between 2021 and 2023. He chose locations made famous by gang violence and stabbings. He became intrigued by the cold statistics in the reporting; sometimes about young people as young as 13 as perpetrators or victims. Unreal armageddon like stories but where there is also much more than that to be found. Van Cuyk looked for context in the street