“Architecture has always fascinated me. Since I was a child I have always been looking up rather than where I should be going – often with some quite disastrous consequences. I have the scars to prove it!When I was at college I had a tutor, who is probably long dead, who used to fume about how people never really took in their surroundings. “Consume, consume consume that’s all we do”Anyway, this teacher – quite a short and portly guy with something of the Army about him – used to love going into churches with his camera. The best way to enjoy a church, he told us, was on your back. And that is what he used to do. Shuffle on to his knees, flip himself over, in his Saville Row suit and all, and lay flat on his back.
The first time I saw him do it I very nearly died. And he would lie there for ages with people stepping over his prostate body. I think he taught me something. “
From the Visual Journal of Nick Clapson (Click on the image to view original)
