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After years spent travelling and squatting, Michael ended up homeless in London with a drug habit. “I got into a hostel and eventually got myself clean,” he says. “Now I’ve got a Peabody flat and things are cool.” He likes to have humour in his work. “The more ridiculous the better,” he reveals. “I think the world is a very silly place and hopefully this comes though in my pictures.”

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