Photography Series

2019

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In the build up to the 2019 election I attended the Conservative and Labour Party conferences. At this point, neither leader of the two parties had ever won a general election. They had both been elected by small vocal groups of party members, whose views seemed fringe compared to the wider electorate.

The small, silent, anonymous party membership system gave us Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson. Two leaders, completely at odds with most of their own MP’s, and arguably with the entire country. I was interested in what political devotion and fanaticism looks like in the 21st Century.

 

In 2015 due in part to a massive surge in membership, Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party despite being at odds with his party, it’s MP’s and the electorate. The members had spoken. Then in 2019, the votes of 180,000 disproportionally white, wealthy Conservative Party Members elected Boris Johnson both leader of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister of Great Britain. A man who is widely unpopular with both his own MP’s and the electorate.