For this young couple, lockdown cemented their fate 💗
store. Tom is a photographer and illustrator. T-Bone was his childhood nickname. ‘There’s another Tom Fletcher in, um, that band… McFly,’ he says sheepishly, by way of explaining his more distinguishing lens moniker. Nico is a final-year fine artist at the Slade. Both are on the cusp of sharing their artworks with the world.
When they decided to lockdown together, Tom began taking pictures of Nico. What emerged was an intimate story of Love in The Time of Covid. ‘It’s been strange and super intense,’ says Tom. ‘You’re together 24/7 and we hadn’t lived together before. The pictures are a testament to spending all that time with each other. I didn’t want to make anything contrived.’ This, then, is the story of looking at the person you love.
The illustrative work over the top of the images are nods to his past: a childhood obsession with Disney and the Jim Goldberg book Raised By Wolves which his dad gave him as a teenager, a forever favourite. The legend ‘If you love me, let’s run to the desert’ was borrowed from graffiti in the back of a picture book on pimps. ‘It’s a crazy book, but those words always stuck with me.’ So how’s all this involuntary togetherness worked out for them then? ‘It’s been a very special thing,’ he says.
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