Tourists caught up in the poll tax riot near Trafalgar Square after shopping nearby, London, 31 March 1990.

Edition of 20.

8 × 12in print (20.3 × 30.5 cm), printed on archival Giclée Fine Art Baryta paper.

Signed on the back and accompanied by a numbered certificate of authenticity.

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 Exhibited in Tate Britain’s exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain until 5 May 2025 (vintage print loaned by The Hyman Collection)

‘…The decade culminated with the poll tax affray in central London, a violent disruption of the everyday perfectly evoked by Friend’s portrait of two bemused Japanese tourists holding HMV shopping bags while thick smoke billows from a burning barricade behind them…’ from Sean O’Hagan review of The 80s, ‘In your face and to the barricades’ The Observer, The New Review, 24.11.24