Stephen Gill has long explored the culture and environment of Hackney in East London. Some time ago he discovered the work of a lost photographer, active in the second half of the 1950s, who had begun to interpret the photograph of a kiss in a special and personal way. Kissing can be quite like the reverie in a beautiful forest; it can also be end-of-pier theatre. In Timothy Prus's words, his sensibility transcends the profession of wedding photographer: in each kiss you see the future, and the past recedes. Re-enactment is a pleasure.