A range of stock photos taken from my specialist archive covering social issues and unrest.

On this page, you'll see a few pictures sampled from the thousands of photographs documenting UK social issues over the last five decades that are archived here. The links on the left will take you to some small sets on specific subjects. For information about my work as a whole click the 'Bio' link.

If you're looking for specific subjects or topics then use the 'search' tab on the right (or in the menu link at the top right on a mobile). The system will find similar forms of a word ('runs' also finds 'run', 'running' etc) and you can use OR and NOT (in capitals) to widen or narrow your search. Multiple words will find images with all those words and quotes will find an exact phrase.

There are lots of photos here and my keywording can be a bit flaky. There are many more that are not yet archived. If your search isn't finding what you're looking for then email me or phone.

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Unemployed youth hanging out on North Peckham council housing estate, London

Homeless Youth 1

Kingsmead Estate Kid

Homeless people line up for their Christmas dinner at an open shelter in a disused church run by charity Crisis at Xmas

Student protests, Whitehall, November 24, 2010

Activists from the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth block the Vopak fuel storage depot, Purfleet, Essex

Railton Road, Brixton - the Frontline. Rioting July 1981.

7.15-33 Youth faces riot police during Brixton riots.

Reclaim the Streets and Liverpool Dockers March for Social Justice, 12 April 1997.

Notting Hill Carnival 27 August 1979.

071103_Class_War_042 Anarchist group Class War demonstrate against 'toffs', 'the rich' and FIT (the police Forward Intelligence Team) in Ladbroke Grove, London. 3 November 2007.

1.0614/520 Drums of industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton. 1993.

1.0614/647 Domestic rubbish being compacted on landfill site, Calvert, Bucks.

1.06-139 Outfall from Sturge Biochemicals factory into River Ouse, Yorkshire.

106-484 Port Talbot Steelworks, South Wales, 14 December 1990.

Slutwalk march and rally. London June 11, 2011.

"Block The Bridge" demo by UK Uncut on Westminster Bridge, October 9, 2011.

English Defence League march to Tower Hamlets as a provocation towards the largely Muslim population, 3 September 2011.

7.161/253 Brian Douglas death protest Nation of Islam members at a protest in Lambeth following the death at the hands of the police of Brian Douglas in Brixton, his skull shattered by a blow from behind with one of the new plastic long truncheons. London. 10 June 1995.

7.31/370 National Front supporters pose for a photograph. Margate, June 2000.

Police chase skinhead during rioting in Wood Green, July 1981.

Poll Tax riots, London March 1990

Poll Tax riots, London 31 March '90

National Front street Rally in Fulham on August Bank Holiday