Talia Woodin

The Campaign Against HS2

At the beginning of 2020, before the pandemic confined us all to our homes, I joined a campaign resisting a highly destructive and controversial high-speed railway being constructed in the UK. In doing so I left my London house share to move into one of over 100 ancient woodlands threatened by the project. From this moment, my home became a squatted woodland community, partly on the ground and partly suspended in the branches of the trees we are protecting. Over the past year I have lived on over 10 encampments within the 135-mile route that the train line will run. I have helped build and inhabited a dozen tree house homes, explored what it means to live within the environment one is protecting and within a vibrant, transient community. All the while documenting my experience through images like these.”