document: "I was expecting it to be quiet, but not that quiet. Even the homeless people were still asleep," Dean Saunderson said of his expedition to capture a unique side of a city.
  The 21-year-old photography student had been looking for inspiration for his project to make a portrait of his home town, Nottingham.
  "I came across lots of images of abandoned towns and cities, completely untouched by humans for years, " he said.
  "Knowing there isn't anywhere like that in the UK, I wondered if I could get close in some way."
  Getting up before dawn on Christmas Day, he found a city given over to the birds and litter.
  "It was a big shock. It felt so different, eerie. I kept checking over my shoulder.
  "There was no one looking at you but it felt like there was no one looking out for you either - like anything could happen to you and no one would know.
  "It reminded me of those pictures of the city near Chernobyl."
  His ambition is now to visit a truly deserted place and put together a photo essay chronicling its story.
summary: Inspired by pictures of deserted cities such as Pripyat, which was vacated in the fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a photographer has been trying to capture quiet streets closer to home - starting with Nottingham on Christmas morning.