When Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, I took my camera onto the streets of London, curious to see how the city would respond.

I expected to find raw grief and sadness, but what I encountered was something quite different. There was a strange, almost performative atmosphere. People were gathering, queuing, mourning and taking part in rituals that felt both deeply traditional and strangely out of place in modern Britain.

I spent time photographing the crowds around Westminster during the lying-in-state, interested in the people, the small moments and the contradictions playing out around me.

Good Mourning became a self-published photobook, launched at Photobook Café in London.

The work is a personal observation of a city experiencing an extraordinary moment in its history, and the curious ways people respond to it.