![]() He turned out to be a jeweller - and when she saw him each day he was walking to the synagogue where he was training to be a rabbi. it's a very weird experience," she says.Īfter failing to take the plunge a couple of times, eventually she spoke to the man in the Panama hat. ![]() "It takes quite a lot to meet someone you recognise but have never spoken to. He was always wearing it and it intrigued her to think about who he might be - conjecturing that he must be "a writer or a teacher, someone who could get away with wearing that hat".īut approaching him was difficult. ![]() ![]() Her starting point was seeing a man in a Panama hat each day. "You could see these people more often than some of your own friends - but you don't know anything about them, you don't know their names, whether they've got family or what they do with their lives." "It struck me as strange that you could go past these people every day and not know who they are," says Ms Rea, who like the people she has photographed, lives in north-west London. ![]() People can see the world, but know little of the streets around them ![]()
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