Sir Joseph Pillings, the first appointed Identity Commissioner. Taking pictures during interview is a relief sometimes - you can experiment a little and the subject has no idea what you're doing.

Rappers battle in the Attic

Must admit, I thought it'd be awful. I took on a job for a music magazine about an outfit travelling the country pitting MCs against each other in rap battles, pictured here in The Attic on Oxford Road. Normally when you see Brits doing things Americans do it's pretty embarassing, but all the competitors here were authentic, original and very, very British.

91 yr old goallie opens Old Trafford museum

Jack Crompton was a goallie for Man Utd in 1948 and is, as such, very old indeed. I was sent to photograph him opening a new museum at Old Trafford, which celebrating 100 years of the club.

A very accommodating, softly spoken 91 year old, I put him on a wall with a century of Man Utd footballers' names on it. Since it was in the middle of a busy, newly opened thoroughfare, it took every bit of patience I had to keep the signature hunters at bay..

Student Protest

An anti-Israel student protest outside Manchester Student's Union, remarkable if only for the fact that they weren't fighting for an extended Fresher's Week. Thinking it was all done and done I left the Union for my car, and encountered a horde of pro-Israelis coming the other way. Of course, things got rather agitated after that.

Playpark in gloomy Moss Side

'Get something pretty' - a brief a photographer always likes to hear. A new play area opened up in Moss Side and the paper sent me over. Moss Side is a gloomy neighborhood and these shots certainly look sombre. I wonder if they wanted something more cheerful...

BMXing at the Velodrome

Sent by the paper to get some shots to promote a new BMX track next to the Manchester Velodrome. Pro BMXer Shanaze was there with some local kids, who were very patient as 3 photographers made their way through them.

Imperial War Museum..

Simple formula - kids plus exhibits at the Imperial War Museum. It's so dark in there you don't see anything you've not lit with a flash.

Since the exhibits are all historical pieces it's hard to get the kids interacting with them - the museum won't allow it. So you just do what you can to make it fun.. in one shot we've got a girl looking through the window of a Trabant, a Soviet classic, and then we've got this boy with an artillery peice that apparently fired the first shell of WW1.