Alwyn R Coates, 'Avoiding the comb over', photographers port...

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Alwyn R Coates, 'Avoiding the comb over', photographers portfolio portrait of Jeff, personal work, First photograph taken the day after Jeff chopped all his hair off, he was never going to comb over like his dad, Mamiya 645, 120 B/W film, vintage classic hand printed silver gelatine print, limited editions may be made in the future but at present they only exist as portfolio prints, signed in pencil to reverse and embossed stamp to the front

Originally shot in my clapham studio as a personal work one Friday afternoon, where Jeff turned up from Yorkshire
with no hair. The first thing I did was grab a camera and photograph the occasion, This was just one of the series,
which included a black skinhead coat and throwing paint brushed around.
As the portfolio toured London agency’s It landed on the desk of a fine creative Paul Van beryl at Rufus Leonard
This image below was Used as a wrap on the outside of the circle line tube trains for a year, along with the Claire impulse image.
Each image on the outside of the train was made up of 4-12 panels. There were 564 panels used for all 18 images.
Jeff then came down again to see his image on the train.