"I didn't know where she had come from, and I didn't get her name, but there was something about that face - the hopefulness, positivity and openness to life - it was the new face of Britain."
So spoke the American documentary photographer Bruce Davidson in 2007 for a Guardian UK article series, "My Best Shot." His best shot had been taken 47 years earlier on a dark street in London, where he briefly befriended a group of youths. Among them was a slim blonde girl with apparently nothing to her name but a bedroll and a kitten, but it must have been enough. Read the article here. (The photo is included, and well worth the viewing.)
The kitten is long gone by any reckoning, but the girl - where is she now? As Davidson told PRI's "The World" recently in a radio interview, he'd like very much to know.
You want to hope the girl and her kitten lived happily ever after...
ReplyDeleteThe kitten, the kitten! What happened to the kitten?
ReplyDeleteI hope that the girl in the picture comes forward eventually, so we may know what happened to the kitten