'40,000+ Preventable Deaths, Tories Are To Blame, Never Forget', North Circular Road, 2020

Spencer Murphy’s photo essay ‘Our Bullet Lives Blossom as They Race towards the Wall’ narrates the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic through portraiture and street photography. Capturing political expressions and signs of the time in the urban landscape, his photographs bring into focus the sharp socio-economic divides in a nation gripped by an invisible threat. Graffitied slogans, padlocked swings, looming tower blocks, deer roaming suburban streets and the prime minister’s pixelated image all contribute to a sense of estrangement, frustration and isolation.