If you’ve never visited Preston bus station, the most striking thing about it is the building itself. Unapologetically brutalist, the imposing structure was built in the late 60s and designed by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson. For most people, that’s about as remarkable as it gets – it’s just a bus station after all. But for Suffolk-born photographer Jamie Hawkesworth it was the inside of Preston bus station that really resonated with him. With its constant stream of transient passengers, it allowed the photographer to build up a series of arresting portraits over four years that have helped inform and shape his career since.
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Bookshelf: This week it’s Creative Director of Mr Porter, Leon St-Amour
Sometimes at It’s Nice That we like to dip our timid toes into the world of fashion, and what better way to do so than to approach a big dog at one of the best online fashion resources known to mankind? Leon St-Amour is the Creative Director of Mr Porter, the luxury menswear site that – much like us – likes to make people happy each and every day. Where we do it with featuring people’s work, Mr Porter do it with a very special knack for delivering their goods in the most luxurious and hand-clappingly exciting way possible, usually involving a very beautiful white shopping bag being hand-delivered to sartorially-minded folk all over the globe.
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