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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘It was so fleeting, yet weirdly they were almost posing’: Richard Chambury’s best phone photo

Black and white photo of a man walking in a park with a plastic bag on his head
Here Comes the Rain Again, 2013, shot on Apple iPhone 4S. Photograph: Richard Chambury

You’d be forgiven for thinking this shot was taken during the pandemic; an inventive, impromptu attempt at masking up, perhaps. Instead, Richard Chambury took it in the spring of 2013, in London’s Victoria Park.

“My daughter was 11 and to get her out and about on the weekends we used to go cycling,” Chambury says. “We eventually discovered this was not her favourite pastime; she’s a reader, and likes the warmth. But we always saw odd things going on, people doing the morning walk of shame dolled up from the night before, or wild birds and swans knocking about.”

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