{"id":3971,"date":"2019-02-11T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:35:26","slug":"life-through-a-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/life-through-a-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Life through a lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>A passion for capturing the human extremities of life has seen British photographer Tom Bradley banged up in a Congolese jail, stranded and sleeping in a goat hut in Togo and staying in a leprosy colony in Nepal. Charlotte Walker reports\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I can sleep anywhere,\u201d says Tom, unsurprisingly, after spending the past decade photographing Syrian refugees, Bangladeshi LGBT rights, Armenian prisoners and leprosy patients in 14 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has a life less ordinary; spending half of the year overseas, with the remainder staggered between staying with friends in London and occasional breaks at his parents\u2019 home in the Wye Valley in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p>Among his photographic projects, most of which centre on themes of injustice, there is one mainstay; Tom has carved a niche for himself in photographing leprosy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, I will be photographing leprosy for the rest of my life,\u201d said Tom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many layers to this disease \u2013 biological, social and pol...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passion for capturing the human extremities of life has seen British photographer Tom Bradley banged up in a Congolese jail, stranded and sleeping in a goat hut in Togo and staying in a leprosy colony in Nepal. Charlotte Walker reports\u2026 I can sleep anywhere,\u201d says Tom, unsurprisingly, after spending the past decade photographing Syrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[1449,1461,1460,1459,1458,1457,1456,1455,1454,1453,1452,1451,1450,360,1448,1447,1446,1445,1444,1443,1437,978,534,496,484],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-dr-hugh-cross","tag-wye-valley","tag-west-london","tag-tom-bradleyb","tag-the-daily-telegraph","tag-swaziland","tag-st-pauls-school","tag-life-through-a-lens","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-lalgadh-leprosy-hospital","tag-glochestershire","tag-eliminated","tag-durham-university","tag-ben-hur","tag-congolese-jail","tag-cnn","tag-christian-union","tag-charlotte-walker","tag-buzzfeed","tag-british-photographer","tag-mission","tag-the-guardian","tag-leprosy","tag-bbc","tag-aids"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}