Looking for a new England: strange sightings in the south-east – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian — theguardian.com

Stef and the free-range hens. Dymchurch, Kent (2002) I have found my biggest influences are American photographers. The impressions on me made by Diane Arbus and Joel Sternfeld were indelible. It was some years later, watching the documentary film Do Not Bend about the life of Bill Jay, that I found out just how important those American photographers had been to British photography in the late 1960s. It was Jay and Tony Ray-Jones who first went over to the US to meet some of those legends

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