New in Photos: Reclaim The Streets – Mayday 2000 A photo essay by myself, written two years on.
“I wasn’t facing the police line but as soon as people around me started the move I ran as fast as I could away from them. Waving the camera over my shoulder I got this shot of a girl behind me. You’ll notice she’s smiling. I was too. As I ran the adrenaline pumped through my body and I started laughing, a big grin over my face. I suddenly understood why people come to these things purely for a ruck with the police, why people go to football matches purely for a fight. I felt more alive than I’d ever felt before. My life was in danger, at the very least I could be cracked over the head with a truncheon or dragged off an arrested, but I fucking loved it. For one moment I was truly a human being.”