there taking photos over her shoulder of one of The Blue Benn ’ s waitresses , Brenda Eggsware . She ended the interview by saying that working at The Benn made her a better person , which I thought was truly an extraordinary thing to say .”
Although Randall and Crabtree approached the project with an overarching theme of community togetherness in mind , Crabtree nevertheless remained flexible in his photographic approach . “ I didn ’ t go into it with an established notion of what the finished product was going to look like . I wanted to let my portraits reveal the truth of the subjects . My aim was to use the archival material in ways that worked well with the contemporary photos and to have the visuals serve the text that Caitlin had written .”
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