There is a direct relationship between poverty and racism, as noted by the JRF Foundation in their report Beyond the Flags: Grief, Polarisation and the Work of Repair:

'Powerful concepts of whiteness and 'othering'' 'have encouraged resentment to be directed sideways towards neighbours and newcomers, rather than upwards to the systems that created the conditions of poverty and rising inequality for everyone in the workplace'.

This project aims to document the unsettling rise of the St Georges flag around deprived areas in the UK (mainly photographed in Oldham and North Manchester and South/East London) married with small moments of intimacy, which demonstrate isolation, pain and loneliness. By placing these images together within a project, I aim to highlight some implications of discrimination, and identify the real result of enforced division.