I was asked for a piece of work to deal with communities ‘Fighting for Justice’. A large scale set of images that were to support a national touring exhibition when on show at the National Museum of Justice in Nottingham UK [formerly The Galleries of Justice]. Shown on the cover of this book.
This provided me with the seed of an idea to extend this more widely and include the obvious fact that there has always been considerable opposition to people doing just that.
I have amassed a considerable archive of work since the early 1980’s and editing from this, I’ve attempted to show that there is a common thread of concern on the way we treat each other, the ecology and the planet at large. I have always found that you don’t simply write to your MP and expect a political process to chug away and deal with your concerns and improve the situation. How, nice if it ever did. Generally, it seems a lot of people have to get quite cross about an issue and when there is enough protest ........
