"Brighton Photo Friends" in Marie Claire June issue

You can now find the article in the June issue of Marie Claire UK.


















Next to one of my favourite actresses: Kate Winslet!! :-)

Marie Claire UK Photoshoot

Here a little insight into our recent photo shoot with Marie Claire UK and our newly formed "Brighton Photo Friends" group. On the shoot were Picture Editor Melissa, Photographer Andrew and his assistant. Stylist&Make-up team and the girls: Jeanna, Ruth, Agnieszka, Nala, myself and Chloe- and I just couldn't stop snapping....












Ruth is getting groomed...
Whooooohoooo!










Agnieszka too...





















Arriving at the set up shoot.
Everything is ready...













Nala receives final make over touches....













The girls in action



















Perspective from onlookers...
(Photo by: Chloe Rudd)

Brighton &Hove City council gets in touch

Seeing the library exhibition "Labour of Love" Lucy Bryson, Policy and Development Coordinator for Asylum Seekers and Refugees from Brighton & Hove City Council has been in touch to organise an activity for Eastern Europeans in our city.

The exhibition was put on in collaboration with Hannah Mathews for the Brighton Photo Fringe 2008.

If you have any suggestions how they could help you to feel part of the community, please let us know: j.horbaschk@gmail.com or contact Lucy Bryson at Brighton & Hove Council.

The photo project had a nice double page spread in the Argus. To read the full online version click here.

The follow up exhibition

It's official, "Labour of Love" is part of the Brighton Photo Fringe 2008. The dates are:

Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street Brigton: 1/11/2008 - 14/11/2008
(in collaboration with Hannah Matthew)

City College Brighton and Hove, 1st floor: 20/11/08-04/11/08.
(Solo show)

If you want to get in touch about the project contact

Julia: 079 444 33 076 or e-mail: photocollege@gmx.net

Are you Happy?

As my project draws to an end I have been asking myself if the New EU generation is actually happy living in England. Most of the people I photographed have a job, a flat and friends and have been rather successful in starting a new life abroad. Sometimes they feel just "lucky" to be here and aim to stay for quite a while.

Yet it is much harder for others. Some people are home sick and don't feel part of the community they live in, a Joseph Rowntree report has revealed. There are issues for young people such as missing their friends back home, constant job changes, extremely high bills etc. Some go back home - disappointed by their journey to the UK.

In it's dispatches series "Immigration: The inconvenient truth", Channel 4 recently came up with the term "International Commuters" saying many Eastern Europeans now fly back and fourth for work- between Poland and the UK for instance. They also reveal that migrants now prefer Spain, Greece or even Sweden to the UK and are moving away from Britain.

Whatever your situation- I want to hear from you!

I would like to follow up on the New EU Generation who knows no borders.

Cheerio...Julia

E-mail me: j.horbaschk@gmail.com

Labour of Love - The book

Finally it's ready. My book about the new EU generation at work. It includes portraits, some of their stories and two essays from Bulgarian academics, Daryana Kotzeva (Social and Labour Affairs, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria- London) and Eugenia Markova (who has co-written the report "East European Immigration and Community Cohesion" for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation).

On the right you can find a badge which links to a preview or buy the book page or follow this link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/230940 - please note the price is in Dollars (good exchange rate!) but you can change it to £ or € on the bottom right if you wish. If you decide to go for it, use UPS as it is faster and trackable (Swisspost takes longer - about 2-3 weeks), below are a few screen shots - I appreciate your feedback. Enjoy!

Labour and Love

I liked the title Labour and Love because 'Labour' or 'Love' were considered as reasons why people migrate to a new county in a recent research study by Johanna Leinonen, but asking my sitters 'out of curiosity" or "freedom" for instance are others. Here are some images and quotes of the people I photographed. They are from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania. Most of them now live in Brighton, UK. I published Richard's and Dimitrina's story in Latest7 magazine recently. Read it here (issue 349 and 351, page 10 or 16).

Photography by Julia Horbaschk

Richard, from Slovakia,
Czech and Slovak party
organiser, Kulture Club,
Brighton,December 2007
www.brighton-csparty.com








Mihaela, from Romania,
Trafalger Square, London,
UK, December 2007











Marcin Pachulski+Tomasz Wojdak,
business partners in front of
their Deli shop "Smaki Polski",
St. James Street, Brighton, UK.
December 2007








Dominikol and Mikulsko,
couple from Poland.
Mikulsko came to the
UK 3 years ago and works
at an off license in
North Street, Brighton.
December, 2007







12:30pm Polish Mass, Brighton
@ St Mary Magdalene Church
1st December 2007
marymagdalen.blogspot.com









Dimitrina from Bulgaria,
cafe owner, "Chez Dimitrina",
Brighton, November, 2007










Wojtek, Kinga, Piotr and Daniel
from Poland, rides operators and
rides supervisors, Brighton Pier,
November, 2007
www.brightonpier.co.uk








Polish and Spanish notice
for visitors, Brighton Pier,
November, 2007
www.brightonpier.co.uk














Mihai Chirilov, Romanian film critique, introducing film "Occident", Duke of York cinema, Brighton, 24th November 2007

And some interesting links:

Dimitrina's (Issue 349) and Richard's (Issue 351)
"Welcome" features on: www.latest7.co.uk

Czech/Polish club: http://www.brighton-csparty.com
(watch the little clip top right hand corner-very funny!)

Joseph Rowntree report "East European immigration and community cohesion" by Eugenia Markova and Prof. Richard Black:
www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2053-immigration-community-cohesion.pdf

Bulgarian internet resources by University of London:
www.ssees.ac.uk/bulgaria.htm#culture

Romanian Cultural Centre:
www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk

Romanian Cultural Institute: www.icr-london.co.uk

Polish Cultural Institute, London:
www.polishculture.org.uk/in_london.php

St. Mary Magdalen Church, Brighton:
http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com

Brighton Pier, really great site- check it out!
www.brightonpier.co.uk