The photography of John Reardon

Birmingham, UK

Daily life in Handsworth, 1980-1984. Published in Home Front, by Reardon and Derek Bishton

Birmingham, UK

Daily life in Handsworth

Birmingham, UK

Daily life in Handsworth

Birmingham, UK

Muhammad Ali in Handsworth in August 1983: ‘I’m saying this from the bottom of my heart – I’ve been to Africa, Asia, China, Russia and all over the States, and I’ve never had acceptance better than I’ve had here.’

Sri Lanka

Refugees from the fighting in the civil war pictured in June 1986

Sri Lanka

An 18-month-old Tamil boy recovering in hospital on the outskirts of Jaffna, following amputation of his right arm after being injured by Indian gunfire at Chunnakam in October 1987

Ethiopia

The remains of an Ethiopian Airbus plane destroyed by government MiGs in Axum, Tigray, in December 1988

Ethiopia

A woman looks at a government cluster bomb in Tigray in 1989

Kuwait

From a 1991 photo essay entitledKuwait – The Cost of War

Kuwait

Kabul, Afghanistan

A 12-year-old boy weeps for his father, killed in the streets patrolled by warlord Gen Dostum’s men in 1993

Afghanistan

London

The author Beryl Bainbridge photographed at her home for an interview in the Observer

UK

Labour members campaign ahead of the May 1997 general election

Bournemouth

Bathers in 1998

Macedonia

Refugees from the war in Kosovo on the border with Albania in April 1999

Albania

Refugees from the Kosovo war use plastic sheeting for tents on the fringes of Kukës in April 1999

Southport, UK

A National Amateur Body Builders Association competition in September 2000

New York

Wall Street re-opens after the 11 September 2001 attacks

New York

On the Staten Island ferry after the 11 September 2001 attacks

UK

Chef with lamb, taken in March 2002

UK

Chefs’ Last Supper in October 2003

Fergus Henderson, photographed in September 2004

Gilbert & George, photographed in January 2006 All photographs © John Reardon