Commissioned by the South London Gallery, State of Play was a six month residency working with ATD fourth World and the inhabitants of the Sceaux Gardens housing estate in Peckham.

The research led to an investigation into the history of the housing estate, the people after whom the blocks were named (Colbert, Fontenelle, Mistral, Lakanal, Marie Curie, Florian, Racine and Voltaire) and the lives and languages of the people who live there.

During the Sceaux Gardens Summer Festival a flat on the estate was used as an exhibition space to screen videos made with residents bu Sarah Cole, with workshops led by Isa Suarez and Chris Jones. Sarah also published a special edition book of photographic postcards, each depicting a resident from one of the nine blocks of flats, 'performing their sense of place'.

These books were distributed to all 400 flats on the estate.

ISBN: 978 1 898461 33 3