"At the age of 12 I was working for the Clash, handing out flyers. I looked older than I was and got to see all the punk bands before getting into reggae sound systems. Multicultural Bristol was a great place to grow up, and by the time I was 14 or 15 I'd be going out late most nights and coming home mid-morning. Having failed the entrance exam to be a gas fitter, I enrolled on an audio-visual course"
"I had to climb up a ladder at the side of the bridge to the middle of one of the towers, then switch to another ladder. At the top, I needed to do a little jump across to the 150-year-old wooden floor inside the turret of the tower. The gap was only about half a metre, but below me the cars driving across the bridge looked like matchboxes and the people looked like pinheads. I was like: Fucking hell!"
At age twelve the photographer worked for the Clash handing out flyers and gained early access to punk bands before becoming interested in reggae sound systems. Growing up in multicultural Bristol involved late nights by age fourteen or fifteen. After failing a gas fitter entrance exam, enrollment in a National Training Initiative audio-visual course led to a photography specialization. Photography enabled documentation of nightlife and insider scenes and provided a tool to explore unfamiliar environments. Work as a stringer for NME and Venue followed. A Venue editorial assignment at Clifton Suspension Bridge resulted in a risky tower climb to photograph maintenance workers, revealing cars as matchboxes and people as pinheads.
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