Crocus Valley by Ameena Rojee is a quiet love letter to Croydon, the South London borough where the photographer grew up. The book is the second in RRB's Platform series, a publishing project supporting emerging voices in British documentary photography. Rojee sets out to show another side of Croydon—a softer side that coexists with the hard truths often used to characterise the borough in the media, a story that champions Croydon's rich natural heritage and the small, sustaining green spaces that thread through it. She began making the images on her daily commute between her family home and her job in central London with the British Journal of Photography, and gradually built a project exploring the boundaries of the borough: the urban edge that gives onto fields and rough ground, the parks where butterflies appear in midsummer, the horses at the foot of Duppas Hill. The book pairs her colour photographs with nostalgic poetry by Croydon's first Poet Laureate, Shaniqua Benjamin, in a romantic view of a cultural and generational patchwork quilt of a place that is supposedly empty of such romance.