"Prime Documenter of Our Times"
— Stuart Macbeth
I'm Jamie, an independent photojournalist from Bath in the south-west of England.
For a little over a decade, I've been photographing protest and activism on the streets of Britain. I began in around 2013, documenting far-right protests and counter-protests in Cambridge, the tumultuous 'Cops Off Campus' student protests in London, and demonstrations surrounding the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. I would describe my work as bold, energetic and emotive, with an emphasis on storytelling more than visual 'aesthetic'; substance over style, though a little style never hurts.
With the emergence of Extinction Rebellion in 2019, I began documenting British climate activism, which became the main focus of my work. I was in London for the first major XR occupation in October 2019 and have returned most years since. In 2021 I documented the G7 Summit in Cornwall and the COP26 Conference in Glasgow, both hit with large-scale climate protests. While climate activism is my main focus, I've also extensively photographed the Black Lives Matter movement, political and civil rights protests such as 'Kill the Bill' in 2021, and more recently peace rallies for Ukraine and Palestine.
I work entirely independently and on a not-for-profit basis.
In November 2023, my photo titled Orange is the New Black was awarded Overall Winner in the Documentary Category at the British Photography Awards. The photo depicts the aftermath of a Just Stop Oil paint protest at the Aston Martin car dealership on Park Lane, London. The BPA awards night was held on 10 November 2023 at The Dorchester on Park Lane, a few hundred metres from the scene of the photo.
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