Sometimes a story is worth the wait
Last Saturday I published a cover feature for The Telegraph Magazine on the world’s first octopus farm, and the ethics and fashions around eating the sea creatures. It was a real talking point from both sides of the debate.
The funny thing is, I commissioned the feature a good nine months ago. I sent a brilliant writer, Charlotte Lytton, to Spain to visit the facility but at that point we were not permitted to shoot photographs, which was a problem.
I feel for the PR who arranged the trip as, without images, it was always going to be a challenge – but legal constraints meant no photography. At one point it was destined to be in the newspaper with a generic shot of an octopus, but I kept the faith and my team came up with a brilliant solution – a bespoke magazine cover shot that went viral.
What Bridget Thinks…
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