My project exploring life on Brighton Beach between the hours of sunrise (which was at 5.05am this morning and required a 4am alarm call!) and 9am continues.
Naturally a lot of the people you meet are just finishing their saturday night rather than starting their Sunday morning and given Brighton has something of an ‘alternative’ culture, you do tend to see a lot of chemically induced behaviour. That’s probably not something I would choose for myself but I firmly believe in letting people live the life they want to live.
Tom was pretty wired. He was coherent and so able to give consent to a photograph, but he was unable to string more than a few words together. He was sitting as part of a group of individuals, many of who I’ve met and photographed before. They were all just hanging out on the pebbled front, relaxing around sunrise. Tom was sat opposite me and just staring intently at me, or perhaps past me, right towards where the sun had risen over the horizon about 20 minutes before. I just love the wild staring eyes. So intense!
Tom – On the Beach by Greg Turner[/url], on Flickr