User:Aava18/Lanre Fehintola

Lanre Fehintola
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Lanre Fehintola is a photojournalist whose focus has always been, according to himself, "to document the ordinary, everyday, lives of 'real' people whose stories are very seldom told". In the late 1980s, he planned on publishing a book showing the most desperate aspects of Bradford, in Northern England. He captured the lives of prostitutes and criminals - most of them hooked on heroin. Determined to immerse in the lives of his subjects, he felt the need to imbed himself into the culture. After experimenting the drug for his research, he became addicted.

His struggle with heroin addiction was documented on Don't Get High on Your Own Supply (1998), directed by his friend Leo Regan. In 2000, he published Charlie Says... Don't Get High on Your Own Supply: An Urban Memoir. A year later, Regan directed another TV documentary on Fehintola, Cold Turkey (2001), as he tries to go | cold turkey in his flat, without medication