Simon Watney and Quilly - Deal UK 2024

            Another favourite photo of lovely friend Simon Watney. Gorgeous Quilly the cat photobombed the picture while chasing reflections off my camera flash! 

Simon has inspired and encouraged me for almost 40 years, ever since I gatecrashed one of his seminars at the University of Westminster as a whippersnapper undergrad art student in 1985!  He was a pioneering LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS activist, and is a brilliant art historian and writer. He’s also been hugely generous in writing beautiful and profound essays about my own art photography, and my collaborative work with Robin Forster. 

Quilly also has a fascinating backstory as he previously lived with groundbreaking South African HIV Consultant Joseph Sonnabend (1933-2021) who pioneered safer sex and community research in the USA during the AIDS crisis.

Taken on: March 14, 2024

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