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Anyone who passed Stoke Newington’s premier frock shop, Helsinki, during the festival will have spotted an arresting display of portraits of Church Street people of all ages, races and genders (and doubtless a variety of persuasions) taken in and around the street over the last few months by gifted young photographer Jessica Casson.
Northumberland-born Jessica, who arrived in Stoke Newington two years ago and, like all right-minded people, fell in love with the place at once, met the redoubtable Maria last year when she popped in to the shop (as one does) and started chatting about life, the universe and the best way of advertising Jessica’s newly-launched career as a portrait photographer. Maria - no stranger to art - spotted the opportunity and promptly commissioned Jessica to capture the famous, the infamous and anyone in between who took Jessica’s photographic fancy in a collection of portraits that mirrors the diversity of the Church Street tribe in all its (very) varied glory. The exhibition’s portraits of Little Lily, from Junk and Disorderly, Gary, the Big Issue seller, and a selection of striking faces, known and unknown, from around the parish, suggest that Jessica’s future as a truly distinctive portraitist is almost certainly assured. Not bad for a young woman whose early adventures with a pin-hole camera translated into an abiding interest in the possibilities of portraiture. Maria’s hoping to keep some of the portraits on display in the shop but, if you missed the full display and would like to talk to Jessica about commissioning a really different portrait, in a non-traditional setting, contact her on 07968 235 689. |
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The picture on this issue’s cover was
taken by Jessica Casson. Lily, daughter of Junk& Disorderly’s Fiona Burdis,
surveys Church Street. The picture on this page is of Hamilton Fitzroy, owner of
Fitzroy’s Hairdressing Salon on Church Street.