British army checkpoint, Strabane, Northern Ireland, 1990
A Traveller child in a caravan with the British Army border checkpoint behind. ‘Over the years, I photographed across Britain documenting day-to-day lives that I recognised from those early years in Liverpool. Whether I was in Glasgow or Blackburn, Bradford or London, the Kent coalfields or Belfast, people shared many common experiences. Although people from Northern Ireland shared much with those across the Irish Sea in Liverpool, they had to endure violent state oppression and sectarian conflict with the resulting loss of 3,720 lives’