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A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS

What do professional photographers get up to when they’re not behind the camera?

We take a look at the personal side of a photographer’s life as expressed through some of the things they value the most. In this issue, photographer-turned-carpenter Peter Adams is in the viewfinder.

“In 1976 I’d just finished working as an art director and designer in New York. I was there for seven years, but I was out of love with advertising. Three years later, Graham McCarter ran a ten-week workshop, which exposed me to new photographers, people such as Elliot Erwitt, people that I didn’t know much about. Graham’s course stopped me ‘scatter shooting’ everything and made me concentrate

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