Having fulfilled up with anyone else that came along on Sunday we walked again down to Trafalgar Sq. to meet our first strangers – and I met George.
I was overlooking the sq. as I saw George wandering across it toward the techniques in the corner so I headed in that path expecting to meet up with him at the bottom of the measures – I wasn’t that fortunate, 50 percent way down was as much as I experienced received, George was very easily shifting at a a lot speedier rate than I imagined and as I released myself to him despite the fact that he slowed in his ascent of the methods he nonetheless did not quit. I incredibly quickly spelled out why I required to photograph him and however he agreed with a pretty heat smile he continue to didn’t stop ascending the actions. I could inform straight away this was heading to be possibly wonderful entertaining or a full disaster.
In my intellect George just about demanded a entire photoshoot to himself, there have been so many facts that seemed to all include jointly to make up this character. A few of swift portraits and we experienced arrived at the best of the measures and George eventually paused, “gotta keep movin’ gentleman” – it was noticeable that I was not heading to get as extended with George as I truly wanted so I stood back again to get a whole size shot with Nelsons Column in the history – George struck his pose for a few of seconds and was off yet again. A speedy handshake, a handover of my card, a final problem about what he does – “I am a woodworker, I make furnishings” and with pencil and sketch pads in hand he was off.
A character in the common sense and it’s possible even an enigma, I would like I experienced put in more time with George, I assumed the photos pinned to his scarf are his liked kinds but I’ll in no way know, probably that is how he likes it.
I have to say I’m a little bit let down in the photographs, I don’t believe they seize the heat of his spirit – and surely not the speed that he moved – but contemplating anything they could have been worse 🙂
Thank you for agreeing to choose element in the job George.
This picture is #23 in my 100 strangers undertaking. Discover out more about the undertaking and see images taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group web page
Posted by Kevin Day on 2012-01-24 09:03:43
Tagged: , 100 strangers , George , London , London Meetup , Trafalgar sq. , kevday , No23
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