This assignment, again for the Daily Telegraph was over in Hammersmith, er, or perhaps Kilburn, at the Tricycle Theatre, I can't quite remember now, but it was shot in 2001. Warren Mitchell is famous for pretty much one character he played in the 60's and 70's, namely Alf Garnett, the bigoted West Ham supporter from the sitcom 'Til Death Do Us Part' (also starring Tony Booth, Cheri Blair's Dad).I guess he was always someone I always knew about my whole life, even though I never really watched the sitcom, (I'm just about not old enough to remember it first time around!) What strikes me about him is that he seems to have hardly changed appearance since about 1965!
He was a real darling and very nice to me, and his eyebrows just scream to be photographed all by themselves!
This was also one of the first professional jobs I shot on a digital camera, the Nikon D1, which at the time I thought was an amazing camera, and looking back at it now, I realise just how bad it was compared to what exists now in just 9 short years... very scary! I think I shot a roll of 35mm just in case as a back up! As usual the picture desk didn't choose my favourite picture (the published picture is at the bottom, but that's life!)
