ANDREW PÁRAMOS
Death Rattle
Death Rattle documents my trips home to north-east England, the part of the world where I was born and raised. My intention is to publish this as a short single-issue zine.
In early 2024, my partner and I made our first visit to the region in over five years, and our first since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in late 2019. My old stomping grounds made an immediate new impression on me, as a part of the world even more depressed and lost than I was expecting (and I wasn’t expecting much).
My previous visits had been fairly positive, enjoyable experiences, but there was something new, something sour in the air this time around. It was everywhere, and it was impossible to escape. At time of writing (August 2025), I’m a month out from another trip home, and sadly I expect more of the same.
I’d ideally like to feel a positive connection with my home town and its surrounds, so the clear signs of decline have been hard to come to terms with but I’m intent on capturing it. This is a personal project more than a social or political one – it could generously be referred to as a work of documentary photography, but all it’s truly intended to document is my despair.