Tour groups

In 2006 I travelled to Beijing to shoot the contents of my first book, 'Made In China'. Whilst I was there I got to see, for the first time in my life, big groups of tourists being lead around from location to location. Although really interesting to see I felt it was too Martin Parr territory so I didn't shoot anything. In Sri Lanka though there was this fantastically happy group of Chinese tourists that were photographing each other. The group must have been about fifty or so and so it was taking a while to work through the group at each chosen location. I quickly snapped a few digi shots and left them to it. 

The Col du Tourmalet 2015

Tomorrow the Tour de France works its way up through the Pyrenees and the infamous Col du Tourmalet. In 2012 I hiked up the climb with my 5x4 field camera to document the race. I also got to watch Team Sky help, British cyclist, [Sir] Bradley Wiggins get safely up that mountain and a few weeks later be crowned the winner of the race. This year Team Sky's Chris Froome is currently wearing the maillot jaune [yellow jersey] so tomorrow should be a good day's viewing.

Here's a few images from 2012 -