by PhotoMouse
She was holding the phone really close to her face in the way that people do when they are not used to video or FaceTime calls and she looked a little lost, her eyes searching around the screen in the way your parents probably do if you try to Skype them. There was something about her skin too, how close it was, lit only by the translucent glow of her mobile phone; you felt you could almost reach out into […]
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by PhotoMouse
I was doing some photographic housekeeping the other day when I came across this series of dark and dingy photographs. I never published them, each one is caked in a film of dirt, they are too bleak to ever see the light of day really. I remember crawling about in a series of stinky, nearly pitch black tents trying to get them and then realising it was unlikely anyone would ever want to see them. But if you’re still […]
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by PhotoMouse
‘I know what you want, you want a book.’ ‘Umm, well…’ I started to say. But standing in front of me on this unexpectedly sunny day in January, with the UK election still seeming a distant mirage, was Gobby, legendary former BBC producer for 30 years, lesser known as Paul Lambert and now Nigel Farage’s ‘Director of Communications’. And as countless heavyweight political leaders have found before this small photographer – when faced down by this man, it is generally […]
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by PhotoMouse
From the moment I saw him sitting among a small group of friends by the canal in Calais, I knew I wanted his photograph. Fortunately for me he also turned out to be one of those people that quite like having their photograph taken. Even later, when I suspected he was tiring of this attention, he did so only with a raised eyebrow or a smile, because he was one of those rare people that get endless pleasure from making others happy. […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Asylum seekers, Calais, Calais Migrants, immigrants, Immigration, Migration
by PhotoMouse
Yesterday a small group of migrants that I have come to know in Calais built themselves wings. They had no feathers, wax or string, but in the darkness and the labyrinths of squats and jungles in Calais, they built themselves wings with tenacity, courage and wit. I should have known it was possible. I should never have doubted it, but I confess I did. Because you read about them in the British press, the dangerous hoards of migrants sneaking across the English […]
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by PhotoMouse
It is Hassan’s slippers that tip me over the edge, and my mistake to say how beautiful they are. We have come to his tent in the Calais ‘Jungle’, home to over a thousand refugees, to move it to a new, hopefully drier place in another nearby squat. As we get ready to pack up the tent he reaches inside and brings out a pair of black and white, woollen slippers. Handmade for him by his mother in his home country […]
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by PhotoMouse
‘It snows in England?’ Sometimes, yes. ‘For one day, two days? And then it is gone, yes?’ Sometimes for two days. Sometimes for a week. It will be cold. ‘But we will have shelter in England?’ Of a kind, yes. ‘And it will snow here too?’ I look out at the bleak coastal sky in Calais and wonder if it is better to lie. If it is better to say that this chilly wind already beginning to find its way into […]
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by PhotoMouse
I have always wanted to photograph the Notting Hill Carnival for work and this year I got to do so for Getty Images. The hugeness of this for me is not to be underestimated. (Seriously, I once refused to take my camera as a punter because I wanted to save up my inspiration for the day this opportunity might finally arrive…) Nor should you underestimate the pressure and stress that comes along with it. Or, indeed, the usefulness that pressure […]
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by PhotoMouse
Standing in the queue for the showers at Glastonbury ( I realise that caving in like this is not an accepted part of the hi-jinks, but faced with the possibility of being even 2% more hygienic than the creature staring back at me from the mirror on Day 2, trust me you’d take it) I got a call from the Commissioning Picture Editor of The Times asking me to go to Turkey to work on a couple of stories – both the […]
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by PhotoMouse
Day One: Picture the scene. I’m driving down to the Glastonbury Festival for The Times on a beautiful sunny June day, singing along to my freshly downloaded Dolly Parton’s Greatest Hits and I think: ‘You know, this really is it. Being a photographer really is the best job in the world’. I stop at Fleet Services on the A303 to find that Starbucks has been taken over by easily forty good looking co-travellers in pork-pie hats, lovely clean lumberjack shirts, cut off denims […]
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