She tells me she’s tired. Her sandwich board is heavy and she’s got three more hours of street pounding to complete before lunch. I see more and more young sandwich board men and women, often stationary at the intersection of two busy thoroughfares or roads, usually advertising one pizza chain or another, sometimes in fancy dress.

This young woman is kinetic, in civvies, not carrying a fast-food chain message but boards emblazoned with the slogan ‘Jobs fair today – Free to attend – Hundreds of jobs’.

She smiles and walks on. I take her photo from behind and my mind rearranges the words to align with my thoughts:

Fair Jobs
TODAY!

Paul Conneally
May 21st 2015
Leicester UK