With his photo-essay, No Love Lost, photographer Michael Grieve captures some of the bleak reality behind the fictions played out by sex-workers in the UK. Grieve's approach feels sympathetic and more closely aligned with Susan Meiselas' Carnival Strippers rather than Larry Sultan's recent work from the Hollywood porn industry. Grieve's text is as telling and as poignant as some of the photos:

"Fantasy is played out within the frame of constraints and closeness is kept at a distance. Menace is always present, control is often threatened. These are emotionally charged settings, both plastic and primitive, where the ‘stuff’ of life is all too present."