Heroes Not Zombies

Here’s the most basic paradox I explored with patient after patient. We are social creatures, who need to belong, to be connected, to have healthy, living relationships, to share time, space and activities which other, to discover what we have in common. Yet we are also, every one of us, completely unique. No two of us share the same life story. We all have different habits, tastes, preferences, even values.

I think this photo which I took at a river side music festival in Nantes captures this paradox, people connected and sharing, whilst also doing their own thing. (Note the two women lying reading books on this near side river bank, for example)