Dec 18, 2024
After eighteen weeks of threats, South Yorkshire Police have now admitted they have no good reason to seek a Court order forcing me to hand them my photographs, taken during August’s far-right riot in Rotherham. I am extremely relieved to learn that this is...
Nov 7, 2024
An open letter to the Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire at mayor@southyorkshire-CA.gov.uk and oliver@olivercoppard.co.uk 7th November 2024 Dear Sir, I am a freelance photojournalist. I need to understand your position regarding actions...
Mar 2, 2023
This was a lovely commission from October last year, billed by The Guardian as “A moorland walk to a temperance bar: Mr Fitzpatrick’s, Rawtenstall”. It’s part of their Pub Walks series. That’s not to say it wasn’t hard work, but shifting...
Jan 1, 2022
Aug 27, 2019
A tale from Manchester Pride, a few years in the making. Please bear with me until the end. In 2015 I was photographing the Manchester Pride parade when the Grand Marshal – Sir Ian McKellen – stopped on Peter Street and lit a cigarette. Sir Ian is famously...
