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25) Interview with Foxy and photoshoot - 6/4/18

Alice Lock
Apr 6, 2018
2 min read

The third interview I did was with another resident called Foxy, who lives in a converted white van. Below are the questions I asked him and his answers, followed by some portraits I took around Greenbank.

1) How long have you lived here? Are there any other places you've lived?

"I've been here for about 2 months now, but I've been travelling before in vans. I've had this for about 5 months, but only lived in it for about 2 and a half. It's not like a house where you can just move in straight away, unless you buy one that's already been done up."

2) Do you have a job?

"I do, I'm a chef by trade. It's alright, I've worked there about a month and a half, I mean I don't really tell businesses that I live in a van, I feel they can judge straight out."

3) So have you lived in any other communities?

"Not communities, this is the biggest community I've lived in, but I did spend a month and travel spot to spot, usually like on my own or if not two or three other vans. Then I came here and I know a couple of people around and I used to park behind an old friend of mine, who also lives in a van, but he's moved. It's quite nice walking down here, walk up the road with the water and spoke to like two or three people like 'oh hiya how you doing'. Think I might move though, I don't like this spot, it's too open, I want to be up there (points further up the road). I've got some other friends in a van that just told me about a really nice spot in St Werburghs, start another little separate van community.

Reflecting back on the interview I'm really happy with Foxy's answers, he seems like a really nice open guy who I feel I could go back to if I wanted more info or portraits. Below are some images I took of him after the interview, which I'm really pleased with.

Overall I really like these images and I feel my portraits are finally starting to reflect a style that I like and want to run with. I also tried placing him in different places which I think worked well for variation of environmental shots, and experimented with full body and half body shots, as inspired my Matthew Smith's work. These are the techniques that I want to continue on with for the rest of my shooting, hopefully allowing me to get some really successful, strong work.