Fashion Sisters (Sunglasses and Platforms), 1973
This is one of Wood’s earliest photographs. ‘While still at school,’ he says, ‘I used to collect postcards, turn-of-the century portraits, and catalogue them according to type: soldiers, weddings, churches, mothers, daughters etc. That idea carried over into my own pictures when I began to photograph. They look like non-identical twins. A vertical photograph of them shows their three-inch platform shoes’