‘They were on an eight-mile pub crawl – hence their slight disarray’: Fiona Duncan’s best phone shot

Bad Santas, 2018, shot on Apple iPhone X. Photograph: Fiona Duncan

The heritage steam train that runs from Grosmont to Pickering, in the North York Moors, was stalling Fiona Duncan’s busy morning. It was a few days before Christmas, back in 2018, and Duncan was dashing around Grosmont town centre, picking up last-minute essentials.

“I was slightly cursing the gates being closed,” she says. “But then all these guys sauntered up and casually formed a line along the level-crossing barrier.”