Deprivation, resilience and a giant bunny: Polly Braden on capturing the ‘beauty and bleakness’...
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Documentary photographer Polly Braden has spent over a year chronicling the lives of young people in deprived coastal communities across England and Wales.
紀錄片攝影師波莉·布雷登花了一年多的時間，記錄英格蘭和威爾斯各地貧困沿海社區年輕人的生活。
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Her project, produced in collaboration with the Guardian's Seascape section, forms the basis of the Against the Tide series.
她的計畫是與《衛報》的 Seascape 部分合作產出的，構成了 Against the Tide 系列的基礎。
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The groundbreaking initiative explores social inequality by focusing on individuals aged sixteen to twenty-five who are growing up on the neglected fringes of the nation.
這項開創性的倡議透過關注十六至二十五歲、在國家被忽視的邊緣地區成長的個人，來探討社會不平等問題。
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Braden emphasized that a landmark health report about England's coastal populations had initially sparked her interest in the subject.
布雷登強調，一份關於英格蘭沿海人口的具里程碑意義的健康報告，最初激發了她對該主題的興趣。
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As a single mother of teenagers, she had grown increasingly concerned about a generation shaped by austerity, scarred by a pandemic, and now confronting a cost-of-living crisis.
作為一名青少年的單親母親，布雷登對受緊縮政策影響、受疫情創傷，且現在正對抗生活成本危機的一代人感到日益憂慮。
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Were it not for that report, she argued, the project might never have materialized in its current form.
布雷登主張，若不是因為那份報告，這項計畫可能永遠不會以目前的呈現形式實現。
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The resulting body of work will now form a touring exhibition, opening at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol in June before moving to Firstsite gallery in Colchester in October.
由此產生的作品集現在將形成一個巡迴展覽，6 月在布里斯托的阿諾菲尼畫廊開幕，隨後於 10 月移至科赤斯特的 Firstsite 畫廊。
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Among the most striking images is a portrait of Libby, a young woman from Whitehaven in Cumbria.
在最引人注目的影像中，有一幅是來自坎布里亞郡懷特黑文的年輕女子利比的肖像。
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She stands beneath a brooding sky on a windswept beach, clutching a bag of oranges while a faint rainbow arcs behind her shoulder.
她站在陰雲密佈的天空下，身處飽受風吹的海灘，手裡提著一袋橘子，而一道微弱的彩虹在她肩後劃出一道弧線。
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Braden described the young people she encountered as remarkable individuals whose resilience defied the deprivation surrounding them.
布雷登將她遇到的年輕人描述為非凡的個體，他們的韌性戰勝了圍繞著他們的貧困。
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Not only had they endured systemic neglect, but they had also forged identities amid circumstances that many urban commentators scarcely comprehend.
他們不僅忍受了系統性的忽視，還在許多城市評論家幾乎無法理解的情況下塑造了自我認同。
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Her photographs, she contended, seek to illuminate both the beauty and the bleakness that coexist in these overlooked coastal settings.
布雷登主張，她的照片旨在闡明這些被忽視的沿海環境中並存的美麗與荒涼。