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Rhiannon Adam, “Spliff No Cigar” “A marker-pen scrawl on the rough concrete of the Harbour Arm announced our location as ‘Margate’. Sun directly overhead. Beach ball bellies. Pink skin cooking – like underdone chicken. Conversation snippets on the breeze. ‘Down from London’. ‘Outsiders’. A racial slur. The presumptive camaraderie of whiteness. The men gathered, listlessly, seemingly purposeless until spliff time and an air of momentary sharp focus. Nick offered it to me, and I noticed on his right arm outstretched an almost photographic rendition of Churchill. In the following weeks, Churchill would make the news when his statue was graffitied in London during BLM protests. Split sentiment on a tangled rock. I was reminded of taking this picture of Nick’s arm. Divided conversations in a divided town. Churchill no cigar. Nick with a spliff. Flat cap and Emporio Armani. Steel eyes and golden Foster’s. This is England.”

Photography Rhiannon Adam. Courtesy of Riposte