"What stood out to me about Finnington was the sense of community there. What was once a ­hospital for a ­contagious disease is now home to people from many different walks of life, with many different trades, all ­centered around this singular building. This project was a photographic exploration of the people of Finnington, the community present there.

Finnington Trading Estate was initially built as a ­contagious disease hospital in 1888 to combat the recent outbreak of smallpox. Patients were moved from a hospital at Audley to Finnington in an attempt to quarantine the ­disease. The houses along the front were built to house the doctors and nurses who worked at the hospital, and no one was to leave the premises without a full decontamination in order to ­prevent the disease from spreading elsewhere.

Eventually the hospital was closed, and around 50 years ago was bought and used as a hatchery. After an incident with the chickens, this was later converted into a unit space for workers, and is now known as Finnington Trading Estate."