Amal, Dalston, 2012

Amal comes from Mogadishu in Somalia and when the photo was taken she had been in Hackney for 3 days. Read more

Einstein landing card

A landing card relating to Albert Einstein’s escape from Nazi Germany has been discovered and put on display for the first time at the UK Border Agency’s national museum in Liverpool. The Jewish physicist fled from his homeland when Adolf Hitler came to power. A bounty was put on his head by the Nazis, who… Read more

Children emerging from under an advertising hoarding in Great Horton in Bradford, 1985

This picture asks questions, rather than illustrating an answer, about the subject of migration. For me it celebrates the multi-ethnic make-up of cities such as Bradford while acknowledging some of the tensions that can arise between communities. The Asian migrants to Bradford were originally welcomed to the city to work in the textile mills. When… Read more

Pastor Reynolds, Birmingham, 2010

Pastor Reynolds was born in 1929 and came to England on 15 March 1960; it was a Tuesday morning. It was difficult leaving his family and friends, the people he’d know and trusted all his life, now he was heading off to a new land, a land of opportunity and promises. Uncertainty got the better… Read more