Story 47
LESS LUST
For this week’s dig through the archives, I came across a photograph I took just before I decided to make photography my career. That would have been about 1968. It was taken in Soho London with a Pentax camera my in-laws had bought me. I was so excited with all the magic of photography – that you could, just by pushing a button and for as long as you had the negative, immortalize a moment in time. I can recollect several characters who would walk through the streets of London bearing their signs. One in particular, an elderly gentleman who stuck in my mind, wore a sandwich-board that read “Repent now, the end is nigh”. Sadly, I never did make a photograph of him but I feel this image “Less Lust” works well for the times we are living in.