Since founding The Pansy Project in 2005, Paul Harfleet has been planting pansies at sites of homophobic and transphobic abuse. Each flower is documented, titled after the words of the abuse, and added to this website. Through this quiet yet powerful act, the ongoing project gently confronts hate crime and brings visibility to LGBTQ+ experiences that often go unreported. To date, Harfleet has planted more than 300 pansies around the world—from London to New York and beyond. Learn more here.
LOOK Climate Lab 2026 was a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change on show at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. The show included a selection of 60 photographs from the last twenty years of The Pansy Project, alongside a large print of The Pansy Project Garden that featured at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2010, designed by Paul Harfleet and his brother Tom Harfleet. Pansies; A History of Violence, is an essay written by Paul Harfleet that accompanied the installation, available for download here. – Photo credit: Rob Battersby
