As a photographer I’m lucky to be able to contribute to the area’s most popular free community magazine. Not only that, the subjects tell me all about their lives, and then hopefully I write an interesting story. It’s a collaborative effort – and maybe because of that on some level I’ve made lots of friends.
Robin Mills went to Poundbury, Dorchester to meet Howard Payton. This is his story. “I’ve had a very varied and sometimes complicated life, which is definitely what I intended; people sometimes tell me I would have been better off sticking Read more »
Robin Mills went to Tatworth, Somerset, to meet voice actor Ellie Baer. This is her story. “I was born in northern New Jersey, USA; Mom was from Brooklyn, Dad from Washington Heights. My mother was an identical twin: her last Read more »
Robin Mills went to Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, to meet Dawn Warr. This is her story. “When I was born in 1960, my dad was under-keeper for Lord Normanton at Somerley, near Ringwood. I’ve got two brothers; Harry, 9 years older Read more »
Robin Mills went to Lyme Regis to meet artist David West. This is his story. “I was born in 1939, in South London; the war had just started. I had a brother two years older, and a sister born a Read more »
Robin Mills went to Somerton, Somerset, to meet Gavin Pretor-Pinney. This is his story. “I was born and brought up in London, but my father is from here in Somerset, and my mother’s from the States, from New York. In Read more »
Robin Mills went to Dorchester to meet Dr Richard Sloan. This is his story. “Both my parents are from Northern Ireland originally. My father qualified in medicine in Belfast then became a junior partner in general practice “across the water” Read more »
Robin Mills went to Lyme Regis to meet Diana Shervington. This is her story. “I was only about one year old when we moved from Ireland, where I was born, to the Isle of Man. For six years we lived Read more »
Robin Mills went to Bridport to meet Alex Coulter. This is her story. “My father was a tropical agricultural scientist, a soil scientist, and his job was in Trinidad at the time I was born. He came from a farming Read more »
Robin Mills went to Longburton, near Sherborne, to meet Wren Franklin. This is his story. “I grew up in the Winterbourne valley, between Winterbourne Whitechurch and Winterbourne Stickland. My father put the roof back on a pair of derelict keeper’s Read more »
Robin Mills went to meet piano player Ben Waters at Owermoigne, Dorset. This is his story. “I’ve always lived in Dorset; born in Weymouth, brought up in Southill, then Upwey, and that’s where my Mum and Dad still live. It’s Read more »