"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst". Henri Cartier Bresson

"Our well-being as a nation largely depends on our manufacturing achievements. What Britain makes, makes Britain". Robert Runcie

"I shook hands with everybody". Boris Johnson

"By 2050, there are forecast to be 2.4 billion more people in cities, and this century could rightly be called the urban century. Without the use of nature the urban century will fail". Robert Ian McDonald

"I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities". Matthew Desmond

"You have been obsessed with entertainment for so long, that you have almost gone blind to the obvious signs of distress that Mother Earth has been sending for decades". Abhijit Naskar

The ephemera of dispossession. Images of items for sale in the second hand shops located on Hylton Road, Sunderland. 1997

Private Frank Maven Durham Light Infantry. Killed in action April 1918 near Ypres. No known grave. Private Gabriel Hill Durham Light Infantry. Captured near Dunkirk May 1940. Held as POW in Lambinowice, Poland.

"And there is a final cry A whimper and a sigh And what was fast is slow And what was brass is gold Valleys drop, mountains rise Lift your head, brave the skies". Sea Power

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realise fishing is stupid and boring." Desmond Tutu.

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them" . Henri Matisse.

All the water that will ever be is, right now.