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Fantastic interview. Hats off to you. And to Simon, who has for a long time, been one the photographers in this world who I have deep admiration for. Such a quiet achiever, he has always run his own race and his photographs have always been as close as one could hope to make. He is such a deep thinker and committed photographer/documentarian, and there is zero ego in his work. Whenever I have a workshop/class, Don't Call Me Urban (and now this interview) is shown as to inspire what is possible with documentary photography in one's own backyard.

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I struggled to believe in this work, which always felt so hopeless. It was born out of nothingness. Nothing to do apart from pursue a passion for photography, which is so often threatened by the boredom of the project. 

I really love this quote, the honesty of it.

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Excellent interview, (very perceptive on New Labour), great photos. I cycled east along the canals through the old docklands in 1985 with a camera and saw how the renovation, gentrification and loft culture was beginning an earlier phase in the transformation of the city.

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