Photographers focus their lenses on differences – and similarities

But Saeed Taji Farouky, a journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker, who specialises in human rights and social justice in the Middle East, focused on a more subtle divide when he was commissioned to explore the differences between East and West Hull with photographer Sarah Jane Daniels.

A new exhibition at Arc, on Blanket Row in the city, explores the similarities and differences between those living on either side of the River Hull.

Hull-based Sarah – who also designed the "East West" fibreglass toad for the Larkin25 celebrations – said the people pictured took a "playful pride" in their sides of the city.

She did add that the one area where it wasn't quite as light-hearted was when it came to loyalty to either of the city's two rugby clubs.

She concluded that East and West Hull are like siblings – each with its own individual character traits but essentially from the same stock.

She went on to explain that: "Like siblings they bicker, get on and don't get on, but if the chips are down they are incredibly protective of each other."