Feeling seen: identity in modern Britain – in pictures

With Faye Maisie and Robyn

‘The three sunbathers regarded me suspiciously as I approached them, glaring into the sunlight blankly. They evoked in my mind August Sander’s famous photograph of three young farmers, standing together on a country road on their way to town. I was looking for the Mayflower Steps, which made Fay, Maisie and Robyn all laugh; I couldn’t tell if they were laughing at what I was thinking or at something else. The three sunbathers continued to watch me impassively. You should go now, they told me, without words, with their faces’