Bright Lights
Light installation with Hazuan Hashim. Barcelona 2005
Hazuan Hashim with night lights. London 2004
Whitechapel lights. London 2004
The Roar of the Underground
I love the roar of an underground train as it arrives and leaves the station. It creates its own energy supported by the echoes of concrete sound and blurred lights.
Underground train. London 2004
Whitechapel Bakery
I saw this woman out of the corner of my eye cleaning the shop floor. After an exhausting day of meeting, greeting and serving customers, wrapping bread and cakes and taking money she is probably thinking of home and a rest. I worked in a shop and a supermarket during my youth. Hard work with low pay.
Shop worker. Whitechapel bakery 2004
Chemist Rush
Over the past couple of years I have been prescribed copious amounts of drugs. I now take much less than I did a year ago and am slowly cutting back on the relatively few I take today. Nevertheless every day for the rest of my life I will have to take some tablets. So thanks to my chemist for the magical but sometimes hellish journey it has taken me on. Thanks to the NHS for thousands of free drugs!
Chemist in Vallance Road. London 2005
Chemist in Vallance Road. London 2005
Sandra of the Golden Heart
Sandra with her Hula Hoop in the Golden Heart. London 2005
I’ve been photographing Sandra for around fifteen years. Half the time she has been running her pub the famous ‘Golden Heart’ in Commercial Street. She has stuck with her pub through hard times and has survived thirty years remaining one of the oldest long term residents around Spitalfields market. Her pub is a landmark which caters for local residents, artists, market workers, tourists and those just passing through.
The Golden Heart Pub. Spitalfields, London 2010
Sandra is an expert with the Hula Hoop. She has retained the skill she developed as a child and from time to time can still be seen Hula Hooping in or around the pub. In our documentary film, which can be watched online ‘Sandra’ she can be seen Hula Hooping in the bar.
Sandra doing the Hula Hoop. Commercial Street, London 1997
