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Feature
POWERLIST 2008
Car
Phil Walker
ONCE UPON a time, a few schoolboys raced exotic cars up and down
a dusty, winding road between Lakes Folly and Bridgetown, Barbados.
Of course, this was all fantasy; we were too poor and far
too young at 10 years of age to drive. We simply walked
fast, steered with our arms and made what we thought
were all the appropriate gear-change noises.
On such dusty roads were infantile auto fantasies
formed. The obsession has lasted. If cars were an illegal produce 0.5 per cent of the world’s carbon
drug, I would have been committed long ago. emissions and the worst offenders are those
My fi rst car was a three-gear 100E two-door Anglia. They over 10 years old. If every car disappeared
were the cheapest of their day, with a 36bhp side-valve engine and today, it would make no real difference to world carbon dioxide levels.
a 0-60mph time of 29.4 seconds! Since then I’ve sated my addiction But such simple facts have been lost in a maelstrom of taxation,
with Fords, BMWs, Mercedes and most European exotica. For some conformity and envy.
odd, post-colonial rationale, I have always seemed to gravitate to The Bentley is exclusive and great fun. One day, our grandchildren,
something quintessentially English and for that reason my favourite cocooned in remote, government-restricted, electric vehicles, will ask
car is the British-built, albeit German-powered, Bentley Continental. us whether it’s true that there was once a plane called Concorde that
Here is awesome, six-litre, twin-turbo power, cossetting four people could fl y at twice the speed of sound and a car called a Bentley that
in understated St James’ Club leather. Forget the ‘footballers’ car’ could carry four in comfort at 200mph. With a remorseful heart we
criticism of those who have never experienced the four-wheel-drive will admit that they did, indeed, exist – once upon a time.
handling, or the 0-140mph surge that can morph landscapes.
‘But what about the environment?’ I hear you ask. Well, cars Phil Walker is Vice-President of Cap Gemini
Photographer
Scott Morrison
FOR THOSE to whom the name is unfamiliar to whom the name is unfamiliar, Steve McCurry’s
work will certainly be well recognised. Born in 1950 in
Philadelphia, McCurry has become world famous through
his capture of some of the most iconic images from many
areas of international and civil confl ict. As a member of the
renowned Magnum group of photographers, McCurry’s
most famous shot is of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee girl.
It is one of the most recognised photographs in the world.
What’s important to McCurry is the individual picture; like
me when I take a portrait shot, he looks for the unguarded year, I decided to focus on taking portraits of different
moment. In his words: ‘I try and convey what it is like to be nationalities around the world. After spending time
that person that I’d guess you’d call the human condition.’ photographing various people across Vietnam, I spent three days
What makes him my favourite photographer is the emotion and living with a hill tribe in Chang Mai, Thailand, and captured much of
experience he captures. Each shot is beautifully composed and, the life lived by people in the mountains. Sharing in their daily routine,
through his work, we share the lives of the people in the photos. Vivid I followed many of the techniques used by McCurry, taking shots of
colour and a focus on the eyes give all of his shots a beautifully unique people going about their lives oblivious to the camera’s sometimes
look and feel. His portfolio of shots taken around India, Afghanistan none-too-obvious intrusion. Although I shoot in black and white,
and China is stunning and the front cover of his latest book, In the composing shots that capture the eyes of each subject is focal in my
Shadow of Mountains, sets the tone for some of his best work. work and, happily, I took some that I feel echo some of the key tenets
A straightforward approach and a true empathy for his subjects are of McCurry’s work.
some of the qualities that make McCurry’s shots truly inspirational.
After studying his work during my time at Central St Martin’s last Scott Morrison is Head of Marketing at Diesel
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