Gun culture is everywhere absorbed through watching films, TV series, even with playing with toy guns as children. This piece explores the idea that even though guns are not legal in Britain on some level everyone knows what a gun is and are quite capable of showing you what their gun fingers are.

A series of 91 photographs were produced as a result of my standing in the Linea Gallery for the afternoon and stopping people walking past and asking them to show me their  best ‘gun fingers’.

"Sorry to bother you but can you just show me your gun fingers?"

No one refused, (apart from one technician), with many asking me about the project.

The types of guns people adopted seemed to run along gender lines too with not one women deciding  to be,  or have,  a machine gun, the only machine guns were from the men.  Countless women were worried about chipped nail varnish and dirty hands even though they knew they could not be identified from the photo as I was only photographing hands.  One man came back and asked if he could use his  ‘gun fingers’ to mark out a peace sign instead.

Everyone had a gun in them.

There was often some kind of social commentary going on - friends compared gun fingers "So your gun fingers are double barrelled?" - Even those that did not speak English once they saw another do their gun fingers understood what is required of them.

 These are people inner guns.