In 1979, Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon put a pop-up outdoor photography studio in the Birmingham suburb where passersby could take their own pictures
On 18 August 1979, Kanta Korotania and her twin sister, Amerjit, got wind that something unusual was going on just down the road from where they lived in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth. Outside the terraced house at 81 Grove Lane, three men had hung a plain white photographic backdrop from the front window. A few metres away, fixed to a tripod, was a motor-driven 35mm Nikon camera with a long cable release.
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