Up until fairly recently, photographer John Parker was working as a pensions administrator in an office. Following a breakdown, he’d returned to work part time, but was then offered redundancy; at the same time he felt he needed more time to work on his photographic exhibition. ‘It was as if the planets had aligned,’ he explains. ‘I clearly remember the first day after I had left work. I was wandering through the gardens of Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire, the sun was shining and all I had for company was my camera and the squirrels. I couldn’t stop smiling to myself.’
