“I’ll get the kettle on and the biscuits ready”, came Chris’ reply on WhatsApp.

I’d just finished a job in Hackney and, with no looming deadlines over me that day, I decided I could walk up to Homerton and pop in to say hello to the gang at Smith + Newton Architects. I’ve known Chris and Dale (the founding Directors) for quite some time and I enjoy photographing their imaginative work. More importantly, though, I enjoy being in their company and catching up over a cuppa.

Chris and Dale are valued clients of mine, but it’s their friendship, their loyalty, their advocacy, their humour, their trust and their willingness to down tools and have a coffee and chat for a couple of hours that I value so much more.  And as a result of feeling royally cheered up and happy having sat in the company of two of my favourite designers for a while, I got to thinking about how I ended up getting so lucky with the people that I work with.