Missing joins International Slavery Museum, National Museums Liverpool Permanent Collections

2010-03-25

The International Slavery Museum has acquired Missing as part of its contemporary slavery collecting policy. Photographed in urban and suburban Britain, the images depict sex-trafficking and prostitution: the interiors and exteriors of working or derelict flats, brothels and so-called massage parlours. They are devoid of people, yet at the same time reveal human activity.

Missing responds to the psychology of sexual exploitation: the loss of identity, sense of displacement and violation of human rights, as well as the clandestine nature of the crimes.

Missing is on display just outside the Anthony Walker Education Centre.

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