u wot mate?
when i studied at left-wing PCL (the polytechnic of central london, now the university of westminster) we were discouraged from photographing homeless people because a) it's a visual cliché that people ignore and b) because it can be exploitative.
so in liverpool on tuesday i deliberately didn't photograph any of the young homeless people i'd been talking to.
as i drove away i realised i should have.
in manchester yesterday the young homeless people were talking about how they hated it when people seemed to look down on them and they felt invisible.
i realised that i could give something small back to them: so photographed them as whole people, part of society: in the same way as i might photograph a celebrity or and actor for a magazine.
and i THINK they appreciated this.
unlike many photographers who promise prints and never sent them, i ALWAYS give people prints and will send them some.
with this in mind, i drove back to liverpool last night, instead of home, so that i could photograph the young people i met but didn't photograph when i was there before.
after shooting, heading home, had a (so wrong they're right) sweedish meatballs, chips and gravy lunch in IKEA off the m62
then drove 286miles back to farm.
and had a shave.
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