Northumberland

Pete Doherty — Production Gallery

In Northumberland , boxing photographer Pete Doherty reassembles a life altered by illness and loss.

After his father suffered a debilitating stroke and his mother was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, Doherty tried desperately to hold on to what he had. He scrambled to photograph the transformation of the people he loved most in the world as they began to die. This continued until one day he woke up alone in his parents’ house, to a world irrevocably changed. Within a year of each other, both his parents had died, and he was left to move through a house, a town and a landscape that was suddenly foreign and dark.

To make sense of this new existence, he began to reassemble all the fragments of his life, inserting himself into the narrative in order to bring all the aspects together as a whole. He combined his boxing work with the images of his family, the town, and the landscape that they knew.