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“A very delicate person, beneath the flamboyance”. Jasper, Ladbroke Grove, 1977. “In the 1970s, Australia was rather cut off. I’d always wanted to live abroad, so I moved to Rome and then London. I was an art historian, but started studying photography part-time. I was interested in the demi-monde culture and began mixing in all sorts of circles. Jasper was a rather wonderful character. He was from Sydney, but he was living downstairs from me in Ladbroke Grove, in a flat rented to some gay friends. It was fairly eclectic. Jasper was always playing around with clothes and makeup. If he was looking particularly wonderful, I might get out my lights and take a shot. Or he might put makeup on me. He wasn’t always in drag, but he was permanently in diva mode, dependably louche, funny and naughty. I think all that comes across in the image. He was actually a very delicate person, though, beneath the wit and flamboyance. Jasper floated through London all too briefly. His real name was Peter MacMahon, but to us he was only ever Jasper Havoc, an alter ego he’d created while part of a transvestite troupe called Sylvia and the Synthetics. They were legendary in Sydney gay culture. On this day, we’d been taking some pictures inside and had gone out into the streets to fool around some more. Jasper was wearing a corset and fishnets ensemble, with other bits and pieces, and we joked about him being trashy as he lay in the skip. We just took the shot for ourselves. It wasn’t done with any publication in mind, or anything else. This was way before the internet and people didn’t share images. If you dressed up, it was just for that moment”. (Photo by Jane England)

“A very delicate person, beneath the flamboyance”. Jasper, Ladbroke Grove, 1977. “In the 1970s, Australia was rather cut off. I’d always wanted to live abroad, so I moved to Rome and then London. I was an art historian, but started studying photography part-time. I was interested in the demi-monde culture and began mixing in all sorts of circles. Jasper was a rather wonderful character...”. (Photo by Jane England)
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26 Jun 2017 09:04:00
Wearing traditional Belarus costumes girls jump over a bonfire as they celebrate the Ivan Kupala night, an ancient heathen holiday, held in the countryside near the town of Turov, some 260 km southwest of the capital Minsk, on July 6, 2014. People celebrate Kupala Night with bonfires that last throughout the night with some leaping over the flames as it is believed that the act of jumping over the bonfire cleanses people of illness and bad luck. (Photo by Viktor Drachev/AFP Photo)

Wearing traditional Belarus costumes girls jump over a bonfire as they celebrate the Ivan Kupala night, an ancient heathen holiday, held in the countryside near the town of Turov, some 260 km southwest of the capital Minsk, on July 6, 2014. People celebrate Kupala Night with bonfires that last throughout the night with some leaping over the flames as it is believed that the act of jumping over the bonfire cleanses people of illness and bad luck. (Photo by Viktor Drachev/AFP Photo)
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12 Jul 2014 16:18:00
Tom Lishness of Windsor, who has been competing in the event since 2005, gets into position for the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta on Monday morning, Oct. 14, 2024, in Damariscotta, Maine. (Photo by Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via AP Photo)

Tom Lishness of Windsor, who has been competing in the event since 2005, gets into position for the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta on Monday morning, Oct. 14, 2024, in Damariscotta, Maine. (Photo by Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via AP Photo)
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26 Oct 2024 03:02:00
Woman taunts naked man. (Photo by riskms/Getty Images)

Woman taunts naked man. (Photo by riskms/Getty Images)
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An animal advocate lays in fake blood in a replica of a meat package with a label that reads “meat” during a protest “The meat is murder” in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on May 8, 2016. (Photo by Nikolay Doychinov/AFP Photo)

An animal advocate lays in fake blood in a replica of a meat package with a label that reads “meat” during a protest “The meat is murder” in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on May 8, 2016. (Photo by Nikolay Doychinov/AFP Photo)
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10 May 2016 13:32:00
A man photographs Anila Quayyum Agha's “Intersections” art work on the first day of ArtPrize at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Wednesday, September 24, 2014. (Photo by Emily Rose Bennett/AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press)

A man photographs Anila Quayyum Agha's “Intersections” art work on the first day of ArtPrize at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Wednesday, September 24, 2014. (Photo by Emily Rose Bennett/AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press)
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27 Sep 2014 12:04:00
Two robotic legged squad support system (LS3) machines by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency follow a technician during a demonstration at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on September 10, 2012. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans)

Two robotic legged squad support system (LS3) machines by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency follow a technician during a demonstration at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on September 10, 2012. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans via The Atlantic)
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20 Oct 2012 10:30:00
Model Bella Hadid celebrates her 20th birthday with her mother Yolanda Foster, The Weeknd and Shanina Shaik at Up & Down in New York City, NY on October 10, 2016. (Photo by TheStewartofNY/Splash News)

Model Bella Hadid celebrates her 20th birthday with her mother Yolanda Foster, The Weeknd and Shanina Shaik at Up & Down in New York City, NY on October 10, 2016. (Photo by TheStewartofNY/Splash News)
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16 Oct 2016 11:23:00