I have spent the last four years sifting through thousands of old press pictures. It has been like
Christmas every day
By Steve Finan for Nutmeg magazine
It is a feeling that can only be compared to Christmas mornings when I, as a child, was handed a mysterious gift. It was usually only one gift but this didn’t feel like hardship – the anticipation, the excitement of unwrapping, eyes lit by the joy of discovery. I have been reliving that experience for the past four years.
The photo archive I work with, kept in an aircraft hangar-sized room at DC Thomson’s East Kingsway Works in Dundee, is an Aladdin’s Cave. There is gold on one shelf, precious gems scattered among another set of boxes. Looking through these photos, reliving Christmas every day, has become my full-time
Job.