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| No one sits here London, ON December 2022 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I’ve come here to get my hair cut. It has a nasty habit of growing into an uncontrollable thicket that’s part Gumby and part Krusty the Clown, so the lovely folks at the hair place will take care of me as they have for years.
Truth be told, I’d hang out here all day, every day, if I could. Stephan and Peggy can cut and style hair with the best of them, but it’s their kindness that makes this place special. Whenever I drop in, it’s like I’m returning home, and it feels like friends bantering around the kitchen table, catching up on all they’ve missed.
Today Peggy is wielding the scissors, and the conversation turns to photography, specifically mine. Soon enough I’m talking about some of the weird everyday-type pics I’ve taken. I pull up examples from my Instagram feed for them as the stories flow.
Eventually I notice the construction equipment tucked away across the hall just outside the salon. Peggy suggests it might make a fun photo subject.
So after she’s done making me prettier than I have any right to be, I saunter across the way and rearrange the chair for a spontaneous still-life shoot against an indifferently painted wall in a quiet retail outlet. She smiles as she watches me work, suggesting various approaches and admiring the results on my phone when I’m done.
Thankfully the mall cops are nowhere to be found, and I get the shot without being arrested.
I don’t often have an audience when I take strange photos. Or any photos, for that matter. It’s kind of nice, then, this photography-as-human-connector thing. Because the end-result photo isn’t quite as meaningful as the friendship that made it possible in the first place.
I hope I’ve made Peggy’s day. She’s certainly made mine.
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