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Photo of the week by Mark T Simmons

By on November 6, 2013
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"The Blue Pill"

"The Blue Pill came about after I had seen an exhibition of the work of William Klein and Daido Moriyama in London and watched a documentary there on Klein. How he would get in really close to people, to capture the moments that only close proximity can accomplish. He was fearless. The following day after work, I walked on to London Bridge, got down on my knees in front of the on-rushing commuters and just started firing off shots on my phone.
The subject in the image was clearly in a stressed state and appeared as one does in that moment when you have gambled everything in your life and then it suddenly starts to unravel, while all around life continues and your fellow commuters just keep coming, just keep coming, until they walk over you and leave you behind."
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