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I made this photo while walking through the City of London in May this year. After two years of pandemic, and all restrictions recently lifted, was this a reminder of the past or a portent of what was soon to come?

Bristol has been dubbed the City of Protest, with rarely a week going by without a demonstration or march winding through the streets.

This photo was made in in September 2020 after a series of Black Lives Matter protests were held in the city as a response to the killing of George Floyd.

One week after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled from this plinth, this All Lives Matter protest was held with the stated goal of, "protecting the Cenotaph".

It wasn't clear to me who they were protecting it from or why they thought it was under threat.

Our lives are filled with moments of hilarity, stupidity, absurdity, and frustration. I like to be there to make photographs of life, as it happens.

I made this photograph in an area of Bristol known as The Bear Pit. It was a haven of self expression through graffiti that changed weekly, but due in part to anti-social behaviour was sterilised back to being an underpass through a roundabout.

My photography isn't always about the urban environment. Documenting the absurdity and mundanity of humanity can happen anywhere. I have particularly enjoyed visiting summer shows, the smaller and more parochial the better.

This photo was made at Portishead Horticultural Society Summer Show earlier this year.