Mexico City
The still of the night in Mexico City. An eerie calm exists as the Coronavirus lockdown awaits in the morning.
Red State
With a vote of ninety per cent in favour of the incumbent Republican government, these counties, north of Amarillo, Texas, were truly the Red States.
In November 2008 power in American politics swung from the Republicans to the Democrats with the historic election of Barack Obama. A look at the changing political map of the US showed a shift towards the Democrats for some traditionally right leaning States. However a close look revealed that certain counties in some States remained as committed as ever to their Republican roots.
With a vote of ninety per cent in favour of the incumbent Republican government, these counties, north of Amarillo, Texas, were truly the Red States.
I traveled to these most republican of places the week of the presidential inauguration in January 2009 and made this series of portraits at this important time of change.
The Snow Belt
Once the industrial heartland of manufacturing in the US and largest industrial region in the world.
Once the industrial heartland of manufacturing in the US and largest industrial region in the world. Big steel, auto manufacturing and mining were the backbone of the area until the decline through the recession of the early 80’s. The high cost of unionised labour and cheaper foreign imports impacted heavily. Factory closures left a still visible reminder of a lost era and a scar on the landscape that led to the regions unfortunate label.
The harsh, unrelenting cold of winter seems only to accentuate the departure of optimism. In fact many of the workers diversified and migrated to jobs in the south, which became known as the Sun Belt. The financial crash of 2008 has only exacerbated the problem.
Making Of
A View To The End
Forty plus miles of unremarkable road. The final journey of the condemned.
Forty plus miles of unremarkable road. Meandering through tree lined Texan roads with the occasional signs of life.
Periodic splashes of utilitarian roadside architecture. The soulless signs of everyday life.
Gas stations, Dollar stores, billboards shouting their offerings. A slice of quotidian American life. Little to see except that it will be the last thing a person sees.
The many churches possibly speak loudest to what’s occurring here. In a land who’s maxim is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth this road represents the final journey of the condemned as they are transferred from death row to the execution chamber in Huntsville, Tx.
At 6pm that day the prisoner will be executed by lethal injection as a group of witnesses looks on.
Texas executes more people than any other State. In 2018 when these photographs were made 13 men and women were executed.
A request to photograph the final room was denied due to the current administrations directive.
The Atomic Age
One of the most destructive and important happenings of the twentieth century
The Manhattan Project was one of the most destructive and important happenings of the twentieth century. A giant secret undertaking to build the worlds first atomic bomb during the Second World War . These photographs depict three aspects of the dawn of the Atomic Age.
The training airfield in Wendover, Utah. This is where the crew trained and the now near derelict hanger that once housed the Enloa Gay B29 aircraft still stands.
The Trinity site in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert where the first ever nuclear device was detonated in July 1945 as a test a few weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima in Japan. The heat generated turned sand to glass and made a substance called Trinitite still found on the government restricted site.
Enola Gay crew member Morris R Jeppson at his home shortly before his death.
Of Biblical Proportions
These places of miraculous happenings observed in the modern age.
Where Moses stood and and saw the Promised Land for the first time; handily there’s a diarama to show you it now.
The Sea of Galilee where Jesus was said to walk on water; now you can slide on the water down a blue shoot.
The Burning Bush which now has it’s very own fire extinguisher.
The top of mount Sinai, where Moses was said to receive the Ten Commandments;
A Bedouin boy wears a Chelsea football top in a nod to the new religion.
These places of miraculous happenings observed in the modern age.
Photographed in Jordan, Egypt and Israel
Making Of
Project Archive
18 pictures of the King of Jordan
You can never travel far in Jordan (or anywhere in the Middle East for that matter) without seeing the iconography of the of the Leader.
In this case three Kings – past, present and future.
In Honour Of
A President, a General, a musician; in fact anybody can have something named after them it seems. Not always something that you might necessarily want either…
Truth and Kitty
A selection of stills from the upcoming documentary feature - Truth & Kitty.
Screenings to begin in Winter 2021.
An epic seven-year love story set in a city designed to be a holiday from reality. Truth and Kitty navigate survival, faith and addiction in Downtown Las Vegas. Two extraordinary human beings experiencing the extremes of devotion, the extremes of love and the extremes of pain.
Truth and Kitty show us the wisdom they found, and the dreams they lost. With the Vegas strip seemingly a million miles away, it serves to give a voice to those whose emotions rarely find a platform and as an intimate portrait of the disadvantaged in a city that is a byword for excess.
Visit the dedicated website for the film here
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