Last week I had the pleasure of photographing two ladies symbolically affected by the much-cited credit crunch. The sad bit is that they were not the ones who have done much to deserve their fate. Chera-Lynn, a production manager for a documentary filmmaker lost her job as their clients in the corporate world cut budgets. Ironically, they had stated half a year earlier that now was the time to invest in charity and social projects which Chera-Lynn was busy documenting. Here my favourite portrait of her:
Sunna, a small boutique owner in Notting Hill is battling the economic downturn by radically cutting prices, reducing stock and having renegotiated the rent with the landlord of her shop. This image sums it up best I think:
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