Simon Burt
TheChef’sSpecials
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amie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant initiative is all
about giving young people a second chance. An
opportunity to become really good at
something............cooking.
AnyonewhohasfollowedtheTVserieswillknowit’snot
beenaneasyride.
It’sonethingtosuggesttoanunderprivileged teenager
that this is his / her big tilt at professional success in a
harsh,cruelcommercialworld-andquiteanothertomake
ithappen.
Truro-basedphotographerSimonBurtwonthebrieffrom
theOlivercamptocapturethestoryasithasunfoldedat
FifteenCornwall(WatergateBay)overthepastthreeyears.
HetellsLitebook:“Iwasbroughtinatthestarttocoveroff
the visualelementof the PR mission;imageryfor press
releases and stock etc. Then the brief came to shoot
portraits of all the students individually, before handing
eachoneaprintattheirgraduationfromthecourse.
Obviously the whole idea behind the scheme is to help
disadvantagedyoungpeopletoturntheirlivesaround.But
that’snoeasytask.OneofthebiggestproblemsIhadwith
the first cohort
was getting
themtoturnup
on time for the
shoots.Oratall.
One of them
failedtomakeit
to the shoot
sessions three
times.”
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