Babies in Real Nappies

Cloth Nappies are all the rage in Hackney, thanks to the Real Nappy Network and some of the hard working folks in the Hackney Council Neighbourhoods and Regeneration team. These are some of the babies who I was asked to photograph at a recent Real Nappy Christmas Party at Hackney City Farm.

Be Recreative!

I've been out photographing for Hackney Council again. This event was to encourage recycling and there were loads of activities aimed at inspiring people to reduce their waste. For me the highlight was a performance by local Hackney school children about the environment. They were extremely cool!

International Women's Day in Hackney

On Friday I was photographer for an event which was held in Hackney Town Hall to commemorate International Women's Day.

Real Nappy Week

Terry nappies are all the rage in Hackney and I was at the Real Nappy Fashion Show last week to capture the latest trends. My first ever fashion shoot!

Hospital Life in North London

Over the summer I was asked to take photographs in a North London hospital. It was fascinating to see the inner workings of a health care institution, particularly after my experiences in the US. Although the building was obviously in need of a bit of TLC, the patients were on the whole very positive about the care they were getting.

Surgery in the neonatal intensive care unit

My photo tour took me through all ages of patients from premature babies in incubators to elderly patients sharing lunch together.

Lunch on the pediatric ward

Lunch on the geriatric ward

Once a week the elderly patients get a chance to eat together at lunch time. Much more enjoyable that eating at their beds on the ward.

Postnatal bliss

This woman had given birth just a few hours previously and was recouperating on the postnatal ward.

Afternoon nap time

Feeling much better

Waiting in accident and emergency

All was fairly quiet in Accident and Emergency. I imagine things are different on a Saturday night in there.

On doctor's rounds

At the nurses station

Just out of surgery

Organising the Hospital Porters

Down in the basement of the hospital, one man with a telephone, a computer and a large whiteboard coordinates all the hospital porters.

Hospital Corridors

Las Vegas

The Counter-Inauguration

As George W Bush was being sworn in for another four years as President of the United States, thousands of protestors were gathering to the North and West of the Capitol to demonstrate their opposition to his policies.

Invited guests

Many Bush supporters had paid thousands of dollars to attend inauguration events. They were unimpressed by the protestors' shenanigans.

Uninvited guests

Which side of the fence are you on?

A ring of steel

Security was higher than it had been at any previous inauguration. A ring of steel was erected around the centre of the city and manned by military personnel. As visitors approached the fence they were ordered to open their jackets in preparation for a full body search.

Local police

6000 police were on duty throughout the day.

Secret Police

An undisclosed number of secret-service agents were also watching over the proceedings.

Scout volunteers in Guantanamo colours...

Scout volunteers were also on hand to assist in easily identifiable uniforms.

Typing a postcard to President Bush

Protestors converged in McPherson Square just north of the main inaugural procession. Once here you could dictate a message for President Bush to a typist.

Spot the real "Billionaires for Bush"

Billionaires for Bush is a humorous campaigning and activist group which aims to highlight "how the Bush administration’s economic policies have been a disaster for most Americans". On inauguration day there were so many real and imitation billionaires in and around the celebrations, it wasn't so easy to differentiate the role players from the real thing....

Is she one?

The Abu Ghraib Fraternity

Presidential inaugurations are traditionally a time of celebration, but not everyone agreed on what the party was about. While the President processed along Pennsylvania Avenue, the Abu Ghraib Fraternity danced to Lulu's hit "Shout" on a street corner to the north of the White House.

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America votes

On November 2nd nearly 120 million Americans went to the polls to vote for a new president. Over 200,000 of these voters were in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, and at peak times many had to wait for several hours to cast their ballot.

Although George W. Bush won the popular vote nationally, there were wide variations at a local level. In the District of Columbia 90% of voters wanted Senator Kerry to be the next president.

Feeling nervous about the outcome of the election, early in the morning voters passed the time by reading or drinking coffee.

For some it was difficult to contemplate the idea of another four years of President Bush.

But optimism was also in the air.

People hoped they would see a new president the following day.

Many gays and lesbians voted in this part of Washington DC. President Bush’s opposition to gay marriage was a vote winner in some parts of the USA, but not here.

Rap star “P Diddy” launched a campaign to get young voters to the polls with the strap line “Vote or Die”.

97% of African Americans in DC voted for Senator Kerry.

Unfortunately for the majority of voters in Washington DC, their optimism was misplaced.