I have created a photobook called “Crying Won’t Help You, Praying Won’t Do You No Good”. The book contains 87 original pictures and my reflections on the themes addressed by the images. These themes include litter and rubbish, the abuse of waterways, the plundering of the land, the human attitudes that make this destructive behaviour possible and where all this might end.

Let me quote from the book’s introduction:

“For years, the environmental movement used pictures of distressed animals to illustrate the crisis caused by climate change. Polar bears clinging to tiny ice floes or Orang Utans gazing at what remains of their forest home.

Unfortunately, these pictures created the impression that the environmental crisis was limited to the Arctic or Indonesia. The exoticism of those pictures blinds us to the devastation all around us. When we gaze out of a train window at the concrete and glass cityscape on all sides, we are the Orang Utan. When we return to a much-loved place and find it ruined by human activity, we are the Polar Bear.

This project is my reaction to the clearing, digging, polluting and concreting of the living Earth. Far from the Arctic or Indonesia, it’s about what I see in my own corner of England. It’s about what is happening all around us and the price we will pay”.

I am self-publishing the book and have an active crowdfunding campaign. I would welcome support from photobook collectors, fellow activists and anyone who would like to learn more about how human activity jeopardises our future.

The current environmental polycrisis is on my mind a lot and I feel obliged to address it in my work. When I look at scenes out in the world, I try to imagine what is happening, why this place is the way it is and what has been lost here. So much life and beauty has been wrecked and concreted over. The world could be so much more beautiful if we stopped ruining it.

The book is complete and ready to print. I’m crowdfunding to cover the costs of printing the book. Pre-ordering a copy of the book can help this project come to fruition.

Ordering the book will help me get it published. But so does sharing my funding page on your socials, or telling your friends. It all helps and I am so grateful for your support.

Thank you.

(A link to the funding page will be added as soon as the page is live).