Christopher Thomond

Feb 14, 2025 | theguardian.com | Christopher Thomond

Roberto Aguilar was born in El Salvador, grew up in Miami, worked in Paris and London before moving to the north of England Aguilar lost all of his commercial photography work during the Covid pandemic, so he branched out into creating prints in his lab in County Durham ‘I feel nowadays we’ve lost a little bit with digital photography. It’s fantastic, but everyone with a phone is technically a photographer.

Oct 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ben Fisher |Christopher Thomond

A Welsh flag flies high outside Park Hall Stadium in Oswestry, Shropshire. As The New Saints players file downstairs into the gym from an opposition analysis meeting, they head past a giant whiteboard with another reminder, in block capitals and green marker pen, of the historic step that awaits. “Fiorentina away, 8pm,” reads Thursday’s calendar entry.

Jun 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Christopher Thomond

Guardian photographer Christopher Thomond bought a ticket for the first coal-fired steam service of the year on the peak known in Welsh as Yr Wyddfa Christopher Thomond Main image: Engine No5 Moel Síabod between Clogwyn station and the summit. Tue 11 Jun 2024 02.00 EDT Engine No 5, Moel Síabod, climbs the approach to Clogwyn station at 779 metres (2,555ft) Sheep on the line.

Jun 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Josh Halliday |Christopher Thomond

On the face of it, Burnley should be one of the dullest contests in the general election. Keir Starmer’s party is sailing to victory in the Lancashire town described as Labour’s most winnable seat, according to the polls. One forecast has given Labour a 94% chance of winning. Another predicts a 1997-style majority, replacing another brick in its red wall. On this basis, Antony Higginbotham, Burnley’s first Conservative MP in a century, may as well bin the leaflets and head straight to the jobcentre.

Mar 9, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sarah Butler |Christopher Thomond |Antonio Olmos

“It has been one thing after another since Covid,” says Mandy Yin as she looks over the accounts for her small north London independent restaurant. It’s just before lunchtime on a Friday and Sambal Shiok’s chef is busy chopping ingredients for chicken and prawn laksa, the signature dish at the eatery on Holloway Road, a busy thoroughfare not far from Arsenal’s Emirates stadium.