‘This Sporting Life’ – Lower Richmond Road, SW15

Passing a construction worker striding back to his building site, work clothes and boots covered in a veneer of dust. He holds a can of recently purchased energy drink (‘Boost’) as though it were a small trophy. The line between exercise through manual labour and sporting achievement now blurred via the marketing of drinks to ‘bolster the system’. 

‘Summer School’ – Fulham Road, SW3

A trio of children crowding around a National Lottery stand outside a newsagents filling in forms and excitedly chatting about the combination of numbers they would use to win. A summer holiday hybrid of economics and sociology.

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