The Journal
Writing between the films
5 essays
What the queue on Lodge Lane is actually for
I went to film a kitchen and spent most of the week filming a pavement. Nobody in that queue is only waiting for food, and once you notice it you cannot unnotice it.
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Asking properly before the camera comes out
Consent is not a form. It is a second visit, a cup of tea, and a clear answer to the question of what happens to this footage.
Harmattan, remembered in a Liverpool winter
Two dry seasons, one of them borrowed. On carrying a climate in your body long after you have left it.
Everyone says the docks. Nobody says the yards
Whole working lives sit one street back from the story the city tells about itself.
Pier Head at six, before the city wakes
An hour when the waterfront belongs to cleaners, gulls and one man who has swum every morning since 1998.
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