SOCPA
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005 criminalised protest within 1km of Parliament.

Protest now leads to arrest, detainment and most likely, a criminal record. When arrested you will be photographed, fingerprinted and have your DNA taken.

The SOCPA laws have eroded our rights to freedom of speech and expression, the very foundation upon which democracy is built. Fear of terrorism has become the justification for an array of measures, which undermine our freedoms.

My work explores the implications of this Act and aims to defy it. Covert political actions are staged and the camera used simply as a recording device of the more important actions that take place. The use of photography, by the State, is examined and re-appropriated in act of defiance and empowerment.

"48 Activists with quote from Wim Wenders"
Each mugshot was in itself an illegal protest within the exclusion zone.