Portraits from the Extinction Rebellion protest in Trafalgar Square, London in October 2019.
Members of the British Indian community celebrate Ganesh in the autumn sun earlier this year.
My story about the Galgael Trust in Glasgow has been published by the BBC today. Here’s a link to the story below and to the Galgael’s site. The Galgael workshop in Govan is a welcoming place full of great people, where the most marginalised in the city can come and learn to work with wood, built boats and feel like they are part of a wider family, a clan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_extraordinary_power_of_a_lump_of_wood
My project about Peckham BMX has been published by the BBC today. Here’s a link and a link to the project on my site
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/parklife
https://www.christianpetersen.com/peckhambmx/
The club are doing great things in their community, here’s a link to their website ;
Manor House
David. Camberwell, South London. This photograph is part of a wider project about London I’m working on.
My work on the Faroese postal workers and the important role they play in connecting both the Faroe Islands and it’s people has been published by the BBC today. Here is the link to the piece if you’d like to read it,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/faroe_islands_postal_service
I bumped into Tam ‘Willie’ Nelson on the streets of Govan in Glasgow in spring. What a great bloke.
These photographs are from a short photo essay I did at Walthamstow dog track, the Stow, on its final night in the summer of 2008.
Fishmongers on a saturday afternoon in Walthamstow, London.
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Turkish grandfather and grandson in Walthamstow market on a Saturday afternoon.
My work on the Faroe Islands has been selected to be shown at the Slideluck event at Rome’s photography festival
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My work about the Faroe Islands has been selected to be shown at the Slideluck Dallas show this evening.
I used to live in Deptford and at the time noticed the heron’s living along the heavily urbanised River Ravensbourne . The river runs through Lewisham and empties into the Thames at Deptford Creek. The bird became a bit of a symbol for me of nature living in the city and from then on I’ve become interested in London’s non man made world and how it survives and in some places thrives.
Roy at the junction in Stamford Hill,
The bus broke down and Roy was sat at the front of the top deck looking out of the window.
Why are you wearing this jacket? I like your hat.
‘I asked God to help me, to show himself to me’
Where you in a church?
‘I was in a church, but that doesn’t matter. I asked if God was there then I wanted him to show himself to me and to help me manage my life for the better. I’ve got two Bibles, do you want one?’
I’ve got one thanks.
‘Well read it then’
Roy, why does God appear to some people and not to others, why does it only happen to some people?
‘You have to be sincere, you have to believe. Look, it’s like the breeze, you can feel it. It’s there all the while, but you have to be sincere’.
I took these photographs a few years ago of a small Baptist Church and it’s congregation, just off Old Kent Road in London. I spent a few hours there. The photographs, well they make me a bit sad.
Young Jewish men watching music at Lag BaOmer in Stamford Hill yesterday.
It was raining heavily and I heard the music coming down across the park and along the River Lea. Nobody was out, apart from commuters driving home, but the Jewish community were out singing and watching these teenage boys play music on the balcony at a local school.
