football's hidden story: Dench_FHS_18

Football fans watch a league three match from the stands of the Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Headquarters of the Liberian Football Association. After over a decade of civil war that wrecked the nation, football is helping bring communities back together.

In disaster areas, war zones and urban wastelands, football keeps humanity alive. It brings nations together and promotes unity. It encourages equality and generates pride and self-belief. It has the power to heal and to help, to motivate, to give freedom to dreams and empower a generation. There are millions of people playing the game or helping it to flourish who find that football brings a positive dimension to their lives.

Away from the billionaire owned clubs with it's multi-million dollar players, Football's Hidden Story is a series of emotive human interest photographs showing the positive impact football has had at grassroot level on individuals and communities all around the world.