We were scratching our collective heads on the Guardian news section yesterday trying to find a photograph for the centre spread Eyewitness slot.
It was a quiet August day, we'd only had 6,000ish pictures in and there just didn't seem to be one that fitted the bill.
One of our freelancers, Christian Sinibaldi, grabbed me at about half past four to help him choose the order that his new exhibition should be hung in the Guardian's front hall (actually, he'd got it right already). He has been photographing older people in the community near our offices in Kings Cross, London. The results are really nice, big, bold metre square prints of happy women and men dressed as if heading out on the town. It's well worth a visit to Kings Place to see the exhibition.
Anyway, it occurred to me half an later that a dozen or so of Christian's portraits would make a great centre spread. The page designer, Michael, quickly mocked up the spread and we showed it to the duty editor who loved it. Phew - another huge whole in the paper filled and the pictures had been sitting there all along!
