Permacrisis is an ongoing project documenting people's everyday experience through the signs and symbols on the streets of a district in London.
I'm exploring how street photography can be given an extra dimension using the historical context of when and where it was made. This approach began with a project on the impact of migration on Europe between 2015 and 2019. COVID became the next and the restrictions on travel gave it a very local focus and a pivot in my working style too: from film to digital, black and white to colour, people to objects. This resulted in a series of books but this project didn’t feel like it had ended and is still in progress.
It takes the form of a personal diary, reflecting on national news stories, started in the early days of the pandemic and continued as the end of restrictions in England coincided with the start of the war in Ukraine. The cost of living crisis soon follows in the UK. Now conflict in the Middle East. The climate emergency overshadows everything.
