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Britain seems like a tiny island when viewed on a global map, although it’s still much larger than most of its near neighbours in Europe. You can forget how diverse it is, become blinkered by your own area of it, if you don’t tend to travel far, especially in recent pandemic-blighted times. Your vision of […]
Six of my seven Wembley match applications had been flatly rejected by UEFA over the course of the tournament. But of course I applied for the Final, Italy against England, because I could. My chances were incredibly slim, to photograph what would be the biggest football match of a generation, the biggest match I would […]
The England v Wales friendly international was a game I applied to photograph without much hope. Places are strictly limited in the covid world, and my application had been unsuccessful for the last Wales home game. It all feels like a lottery, and sometimes it literally is. England v Wales – the background It wasn’t […]
[Please license Cheese Rolling images for private and commercial use via my Alamy library] “Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” The crowd starts chanting. A low rumble of voices at first. Slowly it builds until everyone is chanting in unison. “CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!” They are calling for the release of the first roll of cheese from the top […]
Euro 2016 fever is steadily building. But remember, football fan: the media lies to you and international tournaments make for boring football. International football is strangely confusing in its mass popularity. You might even argue it’s one of the best entertainment scams in the world and has been for years, building to a crescendo of […]
Photographs taken outside our living memory offer us a sense of place in time. My early interest was probably borne of childish delight at the mid-1980s slideshows my Dad projected onto a screen. With all its whirrs and clicks, back then these big screen stills seemed the height of home technology. I loved them. [Read […]
“You don’t have to be a world beater, you just do what you can.” Next summer’s UEFA Euro 2016 in France is shaping up to be a unique football tournament of European giants as well as smaller, almost forgotten nations. Wales currently stand on the brink of Euro 2016 qualification, a single point away from […]
Loving street photography means loving cities. All towns and cities have the capacity to fascinate. They all contain stories about how and why humans were drawn to a particular area, what industries the area was founded on, how it has grown or shrunk. Street photography feels easiest when you are fresh to a place, seeing […]
England elimination – 2010
22nd June 2014
by Mark Hawkins
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa found me approaching the end of nearly three years living in London. After the heartache of Germany 2006 I never entertained going to South Africa for the tournament four years later, despite tracking and trailing big cats there the summer before. On the tournament’s opening day I happened […]
England elimination 2006
15th June 2014
by Mark Hawkins
Central Berlin football feature at the Brandenburg Gate Back in 2005 I was a committed football fan. Knowing the World Cup was coming closer to the UK than since 1990 and wouldn’t be back in Europe any time soon, I joined the official England supporters’ club. The dream was to get tickets for the 2006 […]