Child in the Snow, Oldham, 1982 Size:30.0 cm x 40.0 cm, 11.8 inches x 15.7 inches Print Size: 24x18cm

Print Size: 24x18cm

While I was busy shooting this young man with a fantastic physique

David Squires original illustration

the pedestrian scramble at Shibuya Intersection in Tokyo allows hundreds of people to cross every few minutes

who was photographing them from the basket of a balloon himself

Child in the Snow, Oldham, 1982 Size:30.0 cm x 40.0 cm, 11.8 inches x 15.7 inches Print Size: 24x18cmTaken in 1982, this was one of legendary Guardian photographer Don McPhees favourite photographs, and you can see why: the small child trudging up a hill in Watersheddings, near Oldham, with snow that looks as if it has been sprayed on for a film set. If hed taken it any earlier, the child wouldnt have been framed so beautifully against the wall, says Guardian head of photography, Fiona Shields. It raises questions, too: where is the child going? Is