Behind the photo, a friendship

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Tara Viggo

The photograph of patternmaker Tara Viggo on page 29 was taken by her late friend, UK photographer Caylee Hankins, in 2019. The pair had bonded over their love of surfing and obscure gigs, and spent a glorious 10 days surfing with a bunch of friends in Morocco. “We instantly hit it off,” says Viggo. “She was like a stick of dynamite. She did a lot. After we’d finished a shoot, she’d always be like, ‘Okay, what are we doing next, are we going out?’ She was nonstop and I couldn’t keep up with her.” Hankins died of cancer a year after the shoot, aged just 31.