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    IN TIMES OF TROUBLE

    Jul 23, 2020 5 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHY: ALAMY

    When you’ve stumbled across an issue, however difficult to discuss, you can’t ignore it. The issue is mental health. It was only brought home to me so forcibly because I had agreed to do a spread of photographs on the first Gregor Rutherford Memorial clay shoot as a favour for organiser Steve Toft, a gamekeeper friend. One of the first people I met was Gregor Rutherford’s mother, Rachel.

    Now Steve’s request was good enough to get me there anyway, but seeing the dozens of people supporting the appeal and talking to Rachel afterwards about her son, who had taken his own life 12 months previously, stopped me in my tracks. I saw that what they were fundraising for – the Gamekeeper’s Welfare Trust 24/7 helpline – was possibly the most valuable thing

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