World AIDS Day Commemoration, Manchester

The crowd in Manchester’s Sackville Park hold a candlelit vigil. Dozens of candles arranged in the shape of a red ribbon. For the first time, hundreds held a candlelit procession through Manchester’s “Gay Village”. A minute’s silence was...

Photographing The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama’s on a tour of the UK. Yesterday he held a press conference at the Lowry Hotel, in Salford. I don’t think I could ever get bored of photographing someone with such an expressive face.

A moving letter

On Saturday I covered PC David Rathband’s funeral. He was the policeman who was shot in the face and blinded by Raoul Moat in 2010. 20 months later he was found hanged in his home. I travelled to Stafford in the morning, photographed the cortège in the town and...
August 2011 Rioting & Looting tearsheets

August 2011 Rioting & Looting tearsheets

A selection of the print and online uses of my photographs from the riots and looting that have taken place during the last week. Front page of London Evening Standard, police dogs on rioters in Enfield: Arrest and ransacked shop in Tottenham: Front page of...
EDL Cambridge Demo, 9th July 2011

EDL Cambridge Demo, 9th July 2011

The English Defence League protested against a proposal for the construction of a new mosque, in Cambridge, on 9th July 2011. On the same day, a coalition of groups opposed to the EDL, held a counter demonstration. Younger EDL supporters before the demonstration:...
UK Uncut at Fortnum & Mason

UK Uncut at Fortnum & Mason

UKUncut target those organisations they say avoid tax, using legal loopholes. They say that, if these organisations were obliged to pay tax at the same rate as those businesses that don’t exploit these loopholes, the need for cuts in public services would be...