Marginal Streets project aims to document voters in the run-up to the General Election

Independent photographers Joseph Fox and Orlando Gili are uploading two portraits of constituents to their website for each day of the campaign

(Joseph Fox and Orlando Gili)

We are independent photographers and our project Marginal Streets was born from a desire to both collaborate with and document the political process taking place on the streets prior to the general election.

The initial plans ranged from the wildly ambitious to the obscure – and included an idea to focus on the campaigning in Thanet South, where Ukip, the comedian Al Murray's Free United Kingdom Party and the major parties are vying for a seat.

Eventually we decided to focus on documenting voters, who often feel forgotten in the heated electoral battles that take place across the country. We decided that we would upload two portraits of constituents to our website for each day of the election campaign.

In 2010 Labour won Hampstead and Kilburn, a new seat, by 42 votes, just ahead of the Tories. It was the most marginal constituency in England. So it provided the perfect backdrop to the portraits – from the palatial, detached villas with views on to Hampstead Heath, to the heaving bustle of Kilburn High Road.

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The dramatically contrasting wards of this constituency represent a microcosm of the electorate: in age, ethnicity and wealth. On the website and via social media, our portraits, we hope, provide an alternative to the big election stories that typically run during an election campaign.

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