Thank you, Reg.

I will always be grateful to the nutty ‘sculptures’ of the English artist Reg Butler because the first image below won me the “Photographer of the Year” award from Britain’s ‘Photography’ magazine. This came with a nice cup (which I promptly dropped and dented!) and a bunch of camera gear. I had to return the cup a year later and they were nice enough not to notice. Equally as promptly I sold the latter (my camera was the Leica M3, enough said) and the proceeds kept me in film, paper and chemicals for the next twelve months. Thank you, Reg. These were all snapped in May, 1975.

The reactions of the viewers of Reg’s quite awful sculptures are what makes this series fun.

Photographer of the Year, Photography magazine, 1975.

Hmmm. Bummer.

Profile ….

…. and rear

Sneaking a peek ….

…. or two.

‘Living sculpture’ Gilbert, or George. I forget which.

Disinterested spectators.

Checking it out.

Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, TriX, ‘scanned’ on the Nikon D800.