Writers Talk / Antman

The decision to use documentary photography was taken very early in the relationship with PLR. For this report, we used their database to discover which postcode had the greatest concentration of authors – no surprise perhaps that NW London came top of the list. Yet again research was the key to success. We wanted to record not so much the freezing garret but the contemporary reality of the working day. We selected ten authors (adult and childrens’ novelists, a poet, screenwriters, biographers, medical and economics) and constructed a schedule which allowed us to document, over two days, these very different personalities in their ‘own’ environment. They work hard and, we think, it shows.