‘It’s an interesting contrast of youthfulness and age. The older guy looks as though he’s got his mind on other things, he looks busy.’

‘The young man is going to be the old man in time.’

‘The clothes are that they’re both wearing relate to the different attitudes and ideals that they have.’

The images were created during a year long artist residency at the sickle cell and thalassaemia support project. Sickle cell disease is a term to describe a group of blood disorders affecting the red blood cells. There are three common types; Sickle Cell Anaemia, Sickle ‘C’ Disease and Sickle Beta-Thalassaemia. It most commonly affects people of African Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean descent.