Looking To Be Safe & Sound

This is a reworked unpublished photo essay created in a time of crisis in late 2008 by Lukas Kroulik - brought back in the face of the 2020 pandemic. It drew on PROTECT AND SURVIVE: a booklet prepared for the Home Office by the Central Office of Information in 1980, aimed at the general public describing "how to make your home and your family as safe as possible under nuclear attack."

'It did not happen' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

'Hiding from the worst' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

'Precious or essential?' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

'Take cover!' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

Lukas has always been looking for places and spaces where he had felt safe and sound. He styled, made-up and photographed his fashion model to fit his own safe and familiar space, as recommended by the emergency booklet.