Talking about why he first started taking photographs, the former University of the West of England (UWE) student said: “Looking at statistics ignores so much of who these very real people are.
“A short glance at the numbers tells you a lot, but it doesn’t tell you everything.”
Byron, who had Tourette’s as a child and lives with autism, said he hopes his photographs will reveal a different side to Weston-super-Mare than just its famous beach.
“The bleakness of the town is an integral part of the atmosphere of Weston-super-Mare, with long, drawn-out winters, only to be broken by swarms of tourists and shadeless summer days.
“We often hear about poverty in post-industrial northern towns, and this can make people from the south feel unheard in these conversations.
“I have travelled to many seaside towns in the UK, and there’s something so beautifully unifying about them: we all face a lot of the same struggles. Towns are at the mercy of the seasons,” he said.
From a faceless man in a yellow tracksuit holding a bunch of lemons to graffiti declaring love on a bus shelter, Byron was keen to represent people in social housing in his artwork, drawing on his own experience of continuing to live there.