Diane Greene Lent Photography

This series of photographs exposes the reality of life along the boundaries of the nationalist communities of North Belfast. You can see it in the faces, in the position of the bodies. These are women who spend weary nights peering across dimly-lit divides, alert to sudden violence that lurks just beyond the intersection. These are women who face off with their own frustrated teenagers.

Women who do not stay put behind locked doors, but roam the streets, trying to keep a lid on the simmering anger that flares across the borders. The reason for their persistence is also evident, in the pictures of young people and children. There you can see sparks of joy—look more closely and the tension is also palpable, even in the youngest. The cityscapes reveal the boundaries of their daily lives. These women believe they are invisible to the rest of us, their voices buried under the clamor of newspeak and political posturing.