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A naked man plays with bubbles at Glastonbury – Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s best photograph
‘I’d had too much to smoke and I was lying down with my Leica when I saw Bubbleman. The bubble burst just as I pressed the shutter’
It was 1992 and the Tories’ Criminal Justice Bill was due to give police new powers to stop the movement of travellers, taking away some of their rights to authorised sites. As I pressed the shutter, the bubble burst and I thought: “Shit, I didn’t get it!” But when I saw the contact sheet, there it was, the very last frame – with the material covering his willy. Influences: “Powell and Pressburger, Jacques-Henri Lartigue.” High point: “Garnering recognition for a difficult and personal body of work, The Firm, which kickstarted my career in documentary photography.” Low point: “Although I’m incredibly proud of it, I’ve done so much varied and more personal work, but The Firm is what people only seem to want to know me for” Top tip: “Get a good accountant.”
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