Chris Porsz, a paramedic who worked in eastern England’s Peterborough in the 1970s and 1980s, spent hours roaming around the city and taking pictures of common people on the street. The amateur photographer took appealing and genuine photos of people from punks to police officers. Nearly 40 years later, Porsz, also known as the “paramedic paparazzo”, has picked up where he left off with his project and is now working as both a shrewd detective and a photographer.
For the past seven years, Porsz has devoted himself to finding his previous subjects and persuading them to recreate that iconic posture. According to Porsz, no one else has ever located so many strangers and reproduced photographs in this manner. The results are a fascinating look at how people have changed—how they’ve split up, grown up and changed their styles. It’s the result of “meticulous planning, detective work and of course the unbelievable coincidences”.
Not only was Porsz’s update a reunion of subjects and photographer, but it was frequently a reunion of the people themselves—some of them had not seen one another in decades. Porsz expressed his thoughts on this to Daily Mail, saying, “It has been incredibly fulfilling to organize so many reunions and watch people’s faces light up when they reconnected with old pals. I’ve felt quite fortunate”.
Porsz and author Jo Riley have put together a book suitably titled ‘Reunions’ using images and stories. It is currently accessible on his website.
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