So Many Ways To Hurt You,
The Life And Times of Adrian Street, 2010

"Adrian Street is a wrestler I first became aware of through a photograph showing him with his father in 1973, which seemed to me possibly the most important photograph taken post-war. It encapsulates the whole history of Britain in that period – of our uneasy transition from being a centre of heavy industry to a producer of entertainment and services. It's a rather bizarre and disturbing photograph, taken when Adrian went back to Wales, to the mine that he had worked in as a young man, to meet his father. Adrian's still very much alive and still wrestling in Florida, where he has settled. He's an incredible person, who has tremendous willpower and a great sense of his own worth. His story has an epic quality to it, he has basically reinvented himself for the late twentieth century."

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Adrian Street with his father at the pithead of Bryn Mawr Colliery, Wales, 1973.
Documentary photograph, 1990 © Adrian Street.
Documentary photograph, 1983 © Adrian Street.
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