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Praise for ‘Love Story’
“I fell in love with John Bolloten’s Love Story at first sight. It’s the tale of two souls manoeuvring through a silvery black & white world where love and drugs are the sustenance of life in equal measure. Bolloten, a talented and empathetic artist, has given us a terrific urban love story. This is not a fairytale romance, yet love and romance are there in every gritty frame. A cautionary tale of a man and a woman holding tight, one to the other, in a space not generally earmarked for happiness. John Bolloten’s Love Story is a masterwork of photography with unparalleled depth and emotion.”
Scot Sothern (Streetwalkers)
“An important, honest and unflinching reportage, Love Story asks questions, raises debate and will hopefully, effect change. Bolloten’s raw, real, claustrophobic and compelling album of intimacy and love, grips you by the eyeballs and doesn’t let go. An uncomfortable, exhausting but necessary look at a love and life.”
Peter Dench (England Uncensored)
“John Bolloten’s Love Story is a menage à trois between two desperate people and their favourite drugs. John Bolloten’s photos raise questions. He is an honest and uncompromising photographer exploring Bradford in the spirit of Don McCullin.”
Miron Zownir (NYC RIP)
“A bleak, brutal, and brilliant documentation of a couple living and loving on the edge of madness. It’s cracking work, full of raw intensity and darkness. Bolloten at his best!”
Tom Stoddart (iWitness)
“A love story amid the background of destruction. John’s images bring to life the smell, blood and chaos of two lives caught up in a cycle of love, hate and war.”
Zak Waters (Birdmen)
“Love Story is a stark and brutal work but also, strangely uplifting. Bolloten has shown, once again, he is one Britain’s most important documentary photographers.”
Colin Wilkinson (Bluecoat Press)
