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My feelings around love and death, her compassion for the homeless, amongst that experience in Rome have the biggest influence on my pictures now.’ And now I can return to the London story: The first time I made an “approach” to get such a “homeless” picture was in London –I was going to run the marathon on the Sunday and the day before I thought I’d try my hand at a bit of street photography… I started shooting from across the street and the girl kicked off at me. She lived in the US and the biggest thing to recount was that her mother, a devout Catholic, was diagnosed with cancer and I ended up going to Rome to get her Rosary reblessed in the Vatican and then get it back to her before she died.

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She was a photographer and her influence over a series of events has continually washed over me. I’m from Manchester, but the majority of my work has been done in the usa….the real reason, as some might guess, lies with a relationship rather than amongst the more commonly recounted tale of getting sidetracked when I was supposed to be thinking about running the London Marathon (I’ll revisit that aspect later): The real reason is that I met someone, ten years ago now. I see myself as a lonely individual and my ‘Lost Angels’ work is for the large part an antidote to this engrained feeling. Its truly ‘personal’ ……‘a bit of a long story’, but more accurately it’s rather like the ones most people are not actually prepared to tell.

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