Tim Joplin
Standing at Euston Station today, whilst looking up at the giant television screen that overhangs the concourse, a familiar face appeared on a Sky News broadcast. It was the face of my first photography lecturer Tim Joplin. When I was slacking off and thinking about dropping out of a course many years ago now he told me I had a talent for photography and that I should stick with it - he was a great teacher - caring, motivating, knowledgeable and a good person. You cannot put a price on that combination….just as perhaps you cannot put a price on a life.
Today I found out that Tim - due to medical incompetence - has been left paralysed in all four limbs and is in constant pain. He was awarded £825K today but as Tim said “no amount of money can buy back his former quality of life”.
Tim perhaps won’t remember me but I won’t forget him.
For a Sky News video of Tim’s story click on this link.
