Pigeon Portraits2025
I thought this would be just like the cat show, passionate people with pigeon tats, pigeon bags, pigeon tees, pigeon totes. But it was more understated than that. Aside from the man I saw before I went in
who was dressed in a giant pigeon costume, there wasn’t much to photograph apart from the pigeons.
Before going to The British Homing World Show of the Year
I hadn’t realised that the common pigeon we see every day comes in many strange varieties. Some with barely-there beaks, others with heads obscured by feathers, others looking like they’d been in a wrestling match with a set of curlers. I wondered how much of this was the result of human grooming or selective breeding and how much was simply natural.