In England, photographer Ed Alcock in the footsteps of his ancestors in the coal mines of Horden: “One of those stories told by my mother, which has haunted me since childhood”

In the north-east of England, photographer Ed Alcock traces the thread of a family legend, that of the death of his minor great-uncle Kendon at the age of 17. Far from any miserabilism, his project takes him to meet the inhabitants of Horden attached to their city.