Covid Lockdown – Stamford, Lincolnshire – 3rd April 2020

There are moments when history unfolds before your very eyes.

Street photography has long been celebrated for capturing life and social history. While I am primarily known for heritage photography—my true passion—social history inevitably intertwines with every subject I shoot. A church, for example, can be a time capsule, preserving the triumphs, tragedies, and everyday realities of life in Britain, sometimes stretching back to Norman times.

Street photography, though largely a personal pursuit, remains an important part of my creative practice. A simple image—a bicycle with a flat tire, abandoned at the end of a main street—may appear unremarkable at first. An empty street may seem mundane. Yet, when paired with the story behind it, these photographs become a window into a specific moment in time—moments that might otherwise be forgotten. Years from now, these images may tell stories to a family gathered around a Sunday dinner table or a child in a classroom, transforming fleeting glimpses into recorded history.

My aim is to capture a single day in the life of a town, freezing it in time. For places like Stamford—where residents take immense pride in their market, independent businesses, and bustling streets—these quiet, deserted moments offer a rare perspective. The town appears paused, as if its electricity has been switched off, waiting for someone to flick the switch and breathe life back into its streets. In these moments, photography preserves both the history and the character of a place for future generations.