Axel Stevens
‘For Paul Graham’, 2012
«All I did was follow my strong urge to photograph this man. Maybe he was still drunk from the night before, he was leaning/sleeping against this wall almost like he was trying to push the building over. I feel a very strong connection with people who look lonely (at first sight, actually I do not know if this man is/was lonely) and with people who seem not to fit in our current societies that are driven by money, greed, the current economic climate..It was a very warm morning too and then here is this man with his thick green coat.
It was only afterwards when looking at those pictures that an almost spontanious connection came in my mind with the work of Paul Graham, a photographer whom I greatly admire and respect.»