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Stephanie de Leng: Remembering Julia Carter Preston

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Saturday, 21 January 2012. Remembering Julia Carter Preston. Julia was quite simply an amazing woman in all senses. Although in her early eighties, when I came to photograph her, she was still a great beauty, with very smooth skin and sparkling eyes. Maybe because her hands had spent a lifetime dipped in clay, they were exquisite, long and tapering. I sure she could have made a fortune modelling them. Stephanie de Leng Headline Animator. Uarr; Grab this Headline Animator. Remembering Julia Carter Preston.

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Stephanie de Leng: Marco Pierre White - a slightly personal take from a female

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Saturday, 6 March 2010. Marco Pierre White - a slightly personal take from a female. About 25 years ago, my husband-to-be took me to a new restaurant around the corner from his flat in Clapham called Harveys. We had one of the most amazing meals of our life, then or since, and we have both eaten in some of the finest restaurants of the world. Like Marco, we thought it a great name. I am not sure I know, but I was very nervous. Luckily I have lived to tell the tale. We were outside his recently opened res...

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Stephanie de Leng: Brenda Murray, Local Historian

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Wednesday, 13 January 2010. Brenda Murray, Local Historian. Brenda, 85, is a formidable woman, of that there is no doubt. Hale and hearty, she has not spent a day ill in bed for 45 years. Her preferred mode of transport is the bicycle, and of modern technology she will have no truck. I can personally vouch for the fact that she does not lack omega oils. When I arrived at her neatly presented house for the arranged shoot there was something distinctly fishy in the air. I found her reaction rather intrigui...

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Stephanie de Leng: Doorman at Rock Lounge

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Thursday, 11 February 2010. Doorman at Rock Lounge. Charlie, my youngest son, formed a rock group “Bad Lesson” when he was ten years old, and until the members went their different ways two years later, they enjoyed a certain amount of success. This doorman was outside a rock venue in the city centre were Bad Lesson was hired to play. It was one of those studenty places, worn, and smelly, and up some dirty stairs. In other words, terribly shabby chic. Stephanie de Leng Headline Animator. I was born in At...

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Stephanie de Leng: November 2009

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Sunday, 29 November 2009. The Mattas of Bold Street -where the cheer lasts all year! It is that time of the year again and I find myself thinking of the Matta family and their wonderful food emporium on Bold Street. For despite being the last to sit for “People in Liverpool”, they were undoubtedly its inspiration from the project’s conception. However, it took me a good many years to pick up the courage to approach them. How would they react? So it was with great relief that when I finally did dare ask t...

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Stephanie de Leng: Joey Harris, West Everton

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Tuesday, 2 February 2010. Joey Harris, West Everton. This portrait was commissioned by The Museum of Liverpool in conjunction with their West Everton Project to be revealed in 2011). When I turned up at Joey’s house, he looked very surprised. In one hand he held a sheet of curling wallpaper and in the other, an unlit roll-up. The arranged visit had been forgotten and he was in the midst of wallpapering the hall for his wife. Stephanie de Leng Headline Animator. Uarr; Grab this Headline Animator. I was bo...

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Stephanie de Leng: January 2011

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Friday, 14 January 2011. Roger Phillips, Broadcaster not irascible, and an era past. Roger on the other hand, after a brief stint as a cabbie, decided to venture into radio broadcasting. The rest is history, as they say, for he has been on air now for 32 years and received sackloads of awards, including the Gold Sony Award for ‘News and Talk Broadcaster of The Year 2000’. No other local broadcaster can equal his following. Saturday, 1 January 2011. Maura O’Donnell, Merseyside Woman of the Year 2009.

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Stephanie de Leng: June 2009

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Saturday, 6 June 2009. Ingrid Spiegl, Publisher. 8217;When she was eighteen, Ingrid was the hottest girl in Liverpool”. So Adrian Henri told Catherine Marcangeli, who, in turn told me. “Every male in town was after her”. Testament to this is an album cover Ingrid appeared on for The Liverpool Scene, a crowd scene true, but a crowd of all the “it” people at that time, and there in the front, Ingrid with her Cheshire cat grin. When the orders came in she would emerge into its depth and work all hours on th...

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Stephanie de Leng: September 2009

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Thursday, 10 September 2009. Phil Hayes, Rock Promoter. My friend Tim Brunsden emailed me about Phil Hayes. “I think you should take his photo”, he wrote, “He is a positive force in Liverpool and good to know”. Intrigued, I googled Mr. Hayes and found out the following;. Liverpool’s ICD, as I shall now call it, is basically a motley assortment of bland industrial units, neglected council homes, Victorian quasi-ruins, and the magnificent, now renovated Buddleia Building. In some ways, the street...Some mo...