Photography in the Time of Brexit: The Curious Case of Mark Duffy

When former Houses of Parliament photographer Mark Duffy heard a knock on the door at 8am on Wednesday, the 12th of February, he thought it was an Amazon delivery. Instead, he found eight black-clad police officers standing in his doorway, at their head a plain-clothes officer clutching a court order in search of “Pugin-designed furniture, candlesticks, ceramics, clocks or lamps” allegedly stolen by Irish-born Duffy from the House of Commons.