Mr Burke, Waterloo sweep, 1972
The Long Way Home - Bernard Fallon's Liverpool images
3 March to 15 July 2007
"I knew the chimney sweep, Mr Burke, was the last of a generation so I spent a couple of days with him getting shots of cleaning out chimneys and dumping the soot. He was permanently stained with soot.
He worked all week around Waterloo and he had a string of loyal customers who always gave him a cup of tea.
I also photographed another sweep who was totally different in every way possible, most of all because he actively wanted to be at weddings, as a sign of good luck to the marriage.
This picture represented a slightly different approach for me. I had just come back from working in north California and I was adopting a documentary style of photographing people, where I got to know them quite well before taking their picture."
Bernard Fallon
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