I was wondering where to start, but then I saw that The Plinth in Trafalgar Square finally closed for business this week after 100 days and 2400 plinthians. Tim Andrews was a plinthian back in August. He spent his hour, dressed in a long brown frock coat, carrying a cane and wearing an inexplicably small top hat, dancing to the music of Madness’s The Liberty of Norton Folgate. It was a magnificent performance on, as you can see, a perfect afternoon.
Tim Andrews is a remarkable and inspiring man. He’s a long term Madness fan, but he used to be a lawyer until he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and forced to retire. Unbowed by this blow he set to to find positive ways to fill his time and have fun. Apart from dancing on a stone plinth 20 feet above the ground, a pastime made all the more ‘exciting’ by his condition, he decided something else he liked to do was be photographed. So far he has been photographed by almost 70 photographers of various styles and stamps – of whom I have the honour to be one. 
The outcome of this work is to be an exhibition sometime next year (exact date TBA) at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking in Surrey (www.thelightbox.org.uk)
