The British Isles is an account of thirteen years of life across the United Kingdom, seen through Jamie Hawkesworth's lens. In this extensive sequence of portraits and landscapes, he examines the people and places that make up the everyday fabric of his home country: schoolchildren and workers, markets and estates, priests and professionals, cities and building sites.
 
 
 
These photographs trace an alternative history of a turbulent period in British life, marked by austerity, referendums, celebrations and conflict. As well as a historical document, the book is an exercise in curiosity, offering a radically democratic portrait of the UK in which individuals, buildings and natural scenes are all imbued with Hawkesworth's generous, dignifying gaze.