{"id":2109,"date":"2016-01-17T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2016-03-03T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:50:38","slug":"a-doctors-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"A Doctors Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTell him I love him\u201d the words of my Scottish, 80-year-old father in-law when I told him that I would be photographing Labour<\/a> Leader, Jeremy Corbyn<\/a>. To be fair I was pretty excited too, he\u2019s a divisive character even within his own party and from my initial research there weren\u2019t many good portraits of him either.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jeremy<\/p>\n

Location is vital on these jobs and I was initially sent to a greasy spoon on Holloway Road in North London, conjuring ideas of wide angled shots with JC peering into the bottom of a cup of tea. Luckily the theoretical tea was good because I had a wait in store. Three and a half hours and a few cups later we relocated to a nearby community centre where Jeremy was holding his weekly clinic, answering questions from his constituents. <\/span><\/p>\n

Like any council funded building it was pretty bare but at least I had time for a decent recce and eventually plumped for a shot against some glazed red bricks in the evening sunshine. Finally he arrived (by bike) and apologetically posed up, it all seemed very unnatural to him – I broke the ice with news of my father in-laws affections and my previous home in nearby Stoke Newington. The shoot wrapped up pretty quickly, his priority always the gathered public awaiting him in the hall next-door. Often in these situations you discover a different edge to the character you might have perceived before the shoot, but I didn\u2019t get that this time. He was really quite ordinary and there was a sincerity about his demeanour that was well\u2026honest!<\/span><\/p>\n

I sent images across to The Independent on Sunday<\/a>; who offered a little more intelligence on his tardiness. It appeared that Mr Corbyn had spent the entire morning receiving root-canal at the dentist. Now, how ordinary is that!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/p>\n

Big thanks for The Independent on Sunday for the gig and using the image so well on the front page; also to my friend Tim Bowditch<\/a> who assisted and stuck with me all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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