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politics
The 2024 general election is now fast approaching on July 4th, and it’s commanding headlines as you’d expect. The current prime minister Rishi Sunak took some by surprise in announcing it so early in the year, as others had expected it to happen around October. Attuned to local election photo opportunities, I heard of Plaid […]
The Conservative party leadership hustings event came at the end of a heavy day of work. Most of the day was spent photographing a conference at the University of South Wales in Treforest. Late afternoon saw me concentrate on a separate line of business from the home office, with little break before heading off to […]
The deeply depressing news broke last Friday afternoon. Roe V Wade had been overturned in the US, meaning around half the US states would make abortion illegal again, 50 years after the famous case. I felt compelled to photograph this small protest outside Cardiff Crown Court on a drizzly June evening. With other protests in […]
One: 22/11/2019. The 2019 general election campaign is in full swing. The tyre rubber of the political party battle buses is being heavily worn as leaders head around the UK. Glossy manifestos have been printed, lots of different things are being ‘launched’, televised debates between leaders are hot topics of conversation. The weeks and days […]
The Brexit Party conference tour stopped in Newport on Saturday. Occasionally you find yourself photographing events which seem to firmly timestamp a moment, to reflect something wider. Which isn’t to claim the images are unique or remarkable in the widest sense. This was one of several similar Brexit Party conference dates across Britain, merely one […]
The general election of 2017 was announced suddenly by Prime Minister Theresa May on April 18th. Nobody knew in advance what her major announcement would be, but a ‘snap election’ was called for June 8th, little under two months away. Before the week was out, Whitchurch Common in the constituency of Cardiff North saw the […]
Short-lived blossom was thinning out and daffodils were wilting.. The sky sagged a harmless grey, like it couldn’t quite muster the will to drizzle over the constituency of Cardiff North and its excitably burbling groups of Labour party supporters. On the first floor of a large house beyond the park a young man sat at […]
In Cardiff political photography largely constitutes the work of Assembly Ministers, press conferences, photocalls and activists on the steps of the Senedd. There are visits from high profile political figures when campaigning or lobbying around the country. There was 2014’s exceptional NATO summit meeting of World leaders. But it’s unusual for the city to host UK […]
Public protest photography is fascinating and wickedly stimulating. Emotional power is a magnet for most photographers. Whether it’s the romantic kiss of newlyweds, the cathartic release of a goal-celebration, or something altogether more subtle in an intimate one-to-one portrait, emotion is innately photogenic and deeply desirable. It’s often what makes us return to a photograph […]
With a photography battle-weary bad back, last Tuesday evening I walked a short distance across Cardiff city centre to the Mercure Hotel. This was the setting for the Labour leadership rally of controversial candidate favourite Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn is currently the name commanding most news agendas, about whom many headlines, column inches and blog posts are being written. […]
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