Not Our Future

The Wendover Active Resistance (W.A.R.) camp was located on a narrow area of land between the A413 and the local Chiltern railway line south of the town of Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Destroyed in late-2021 the camp opposed the construction of the HS2 railway line and their handling of local ecology. The camp housed tunnel, built treehouses and erected a fifteen-metre high tower all in order to keep the eviction team at bay. Taken in late-2021 the photographic work Not Our Future presents the activists, their environment and the materials used to promote their cause. Alongside the photographs are appropriated banners, flags and signs that display a narrative of their protest. The work brings together a time in recent history that formed a resistance to the ongoing fight with the HS2 development.