12 May John Maybury Crowndale Rd Camden London 1983

Taken in John’s flat in Crowndale Rd, Camden circa 1982. Derek Jarman asked me who I would like to photograph after he liked the pictures I’d taken of him. I said David Bowie! He gave me John’s number instead.  I went quite early in the morning and woke John up I was so early. I also took some magic mushrooms to help me ‘see’ stuff. It was all nerves. This picture was chosen to be in the New Contemporaries exhibition in 1984 at the ICA and is also in The National Portrait Gallery collection and was displayed in my exhibition there in 2017 called Before We Were Men.
John is now  a renowned film director with brilliant biopics on Francis Bacon and Dylan Thomas two of his most well known films.