I Belong Here

Anita Sethi was on a journey through Northern England when she became the victim of a race-hate crime. After the event Anita experienced panic attacks and anxiety. A crushing sense of claustrophobia made her long for wide open spaces, to breathe deeply in the great outdoors.

The Pennines - known as 'the backbone of Britain' runs through the north and also strongly connects north with south, east with west - it's a place of borderlands and limestone, of rivers and 'scars', of fells and forces. The Pennines called to Anita with a magnetic force. Anita's journey through the natural landscapes of the North is one of reclamation, a way of saying that this is her land too.

Her journey transforms what began as an ugly experience of hate into one offering hope and finding beauty after brutality.