I’m happy to announce that 2 of my images have been selected as winners in this year’s Portrait of Britain. The two images, one shot in Sennen (Cornwall), and one shot in Great Yarmouth are both part of my Don’t Push Me series and will be shown on JCDecaux digital screens around the UK. A third image is also included in the book by Hoxton Mini Press.

Against the backdrop of a nation still picking up the pieces, this is Portrait of Britain 2021: the UK’s biggest annual photography exhibition in collaboration with JCDecaux.

100 winning images, each capturing the changing face of our nation in their own unique way, have been selected by a panel of industry-leading judges including Tracy Marshall, director of Bristol Photo Festival; Mariama Attah, curator at Open Eye Gallery and Nicola Shipley, director of GRAIN Projects.

In its entirety, Portrait of Britain 2021 offers a rich and complex variety of work that holds a mirror up to modern society: from quiet, everyday moments to landmark events; dynamic urban faces to eccentric countryside characters, and traditional portraiture to more innovative techniques.

In a world fraught with division, portraiture is, in many ways, the ultimate act of collaboration. Perhaps portraiture cannot solve Britain’s identity crisis, but it can help us rejoice in the diversity of our people — and remind us that, for all our differences, there is sameness amongst us, too.