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Street photography from London, England.

Previously unpublished archived shot from February 2019. Enjoy!

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Street portrait from Covent Garden, London, UK.

A colour re-edit of a shot taken on assignment for a major international client with the direction to capture 'candid' emotions while the subject was being interviewed.

It's hard to believe this was four years ago to the day. The pandemic curtailing my work and making the passage of time feel a little odd. It was a great shoot with a wonderful team of people, including my assistant helping to light the shot with a reflector as natural light was vital for all of the shots in the brief. Enjoy!

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A London skyline captured from Westminster Bridge in February 2019.

The eyes of the world will fall upon London for a while to come as millions of people mourn the loss of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Royalist or republican, her life was undeniably extraordinary and from a young age she pledged devotion to the service of her country. A pledge she carried out unswerving right to the very end. A quality which we should all look up to. Her Majesty The Queen was not solely the Monarch of The United Kingdom, she was the matriarch too.

The loss of such a steadfast constant in our lives can bring loss and grief of its own and it can resurface loss and grief of our own family members that passed. Either way it is important to be gentle with yourself at such a time.

As we move from an Elizabethan Age to a Carolean Age the London Eye will continue to turn and the waters of the River Thames will continue to flow. While some things will never be the same again, many things will continue, change and grow.

May Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace.

May peace be with us all.

Stay safe my Flickr friends.

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Street portrait from London, England.

A previously unpublished portrait captured during assignment for an international advertising brand to a very specific brief back in February 2019. This shot was my personal choice from the ones taken of Rachel and I decided to edit in black and white. Natural light only with reflector held by assistant, the images had to be captured while the subject was being interviewed with the idea of capturing natural but subtle emotion. Enjoy!

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Street photography from London, England.

Colour re-edit of a shot from February 2019.

Last night, on the 27th April 2022, democracy ended in the United Kingdom.

This may sound melodramatic but if you consider the consequences for just a moment, the reality is nothing short of horrifying.

The UK Conservative Government have passed a number of bills through the House of Lords, after a number of attempts, where few opposition peers turned up late at night and these bills will receive automatic Royal Ascent today during the pre-election Proroguing of Parliament.

A new police and crime bill passed on 26th April that makes 'noisy protest' illegal and this includes any protest found to be disruptive. A right to peaceful (as in non-violent) protest is essential to a functional democracy.
A new elections bill passed on the 27th April that means that all voters now need to provide photographic I.D., excluding even myself from voting now as well as millions of others. In addition, and more worryingly, the bill allows the Conservative Government to control the Electoral Commission - the independent body that impartially protects the integrity of our elections, and democracy, will now be completely under the control of the current Government.

While our mainstream media is distracted by the 'dead cat' Tory sleaze stories of misogyny and MPs watching porn in the House of Commons, they are completely ignoring these new autocratic laws. Of course, the mainstream media is majority owned by Tory donors or run by Tory stooges. No wonder they wish to sell off Channel 4, the only television channel still holding Government to account.

Anyone wondering how the people of Germany allowed the country to slide into Fascist rule in the 1930s need look no further.

First they control the media, then they get away with breaking laws and telling lies with impunity. The sleaze and 'dead cat' stories then distract while laws and polices are pushed through that erode democracy. Oh, and the current Government are already scapegoating a couple of minority groups into 'the enemy' as well. Laws affecting these are already in place and more are planned. If you look deeper than the headlines you will see more in common with 1930s Germany than you would care to imagine. Ah, 'but we don't have concentration camps' you may say - well the bill making it possible for the Government to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was also passed last night. Think these asylum seekers are all just 'economic migrants'? Think again. Any one of us is just one disaster away from becoming asylum seekers ourselves.

We now live in an elected dictatorship.

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