“I am very very tall, 6 feet
and 10 inches tall actually, and being that big prompts total strangers
in every kind of public place you can think of to tell me I'm tall
or tell me they've got a friend who's tall, or they just ask me questions.
Over the years I've heard some unbelievable questions like how long
do I think I have to live? or how do I fuck?
I wish I'd been carrying a camera around
years and years ago when some well-meaning idiot was telling me I
was the tallest guy he had ever seen while I was throwing up in the
toilet of my favourite bar. (You're not going to believe this but
it was heat stroke, not the beer. Honest, I'd been stacking bales
of peat moss all day!)
Anyway, since 2003 I have carried a compact 35mm camera around with
me everywhere I go in order to photograph every stranger that comes
up to me and says something to me. It's a therapeutic exercise. First
of all it's a subtle way of getting back in the face of people who
have entered my space ininvited, and it's a great way of illustrating
to others how people who aren't of an average size or appearance are
sometimes treated as public property. And certainly I think looking
at these pictures is better than listening to me moan about how clothes
marked XXL still don't fit, or the lack of leg room on airplanes.
Andrew Moodie
Zoom In Volunteer and Trustee.
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