Last Stop

Stephen Shaws project Last Stop documents people suffering from dementia. He started the project exploring disease and their stifling effects in society, such as dementia, over the past 3 years. Stephen felt this disease had become drastically worsened and is researching to raise questions about how and why certain diseases are more prominent in our era and how society acts within their constraints. It is a personal documentary following the lives of two people. A man called Fred who...
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Stephen Shaws project Last Stop documents people suffering from dementia. He started the project exploring disease and their stifling effects in society, such as dementia, over the past 3 years. Stephen felt this disease had become drastically worsened and is researching to raise questions about how and why certain diseases are more prominent in our era and how society acts within their constraints. It is a personal documentary following the lives of two people. A man called Fred who was moved into a care home and a woman called Margaret. They were both in terminal decline. Fred has been committed due to his worsening state and Margaret was looked after by her son and palliative care nurses. Last stop was based in a care home with Fred and private home received palliative care with Margaret, her late son Steve cared for her. It is a touching story that worsened sadly when Margaret's son died in a tragic accident. Now the book has an eerie synchronicity surrounding this event. Steve fell down the stairs suffering a blood clot to his brain which was misdiagnosed as alcoholism his mother has now also died. The sudden changed context since their passing speaks eerily through premonition around this change of context and the photographs symbolism and text with the deaths.The photographs are brought to life using traditional Haiku poetry that was constructed with photographs taken with the mother and son alongside the authors ideas within a regular team effort. The author has also now had recent tragic events in his own life, involving harassment and abuse which brought on through misinterpretation and assumptions by people and he cannot get any help. The last stop is a touching but astoundingly extraordinary piece of work telling the true story of death and betrayal within society for the modern language photography reader. It works together as a set of 4 books with 3 other titles called Strange, The gift, and Omens of murder.