This was a collaborative book with Lara Clifton who edited the writing and photographer Julie Cook. I was invited to photograph women who worked in some of the strip pubs in Shoreditch in 1999, it was an invitation into another world. In the very intimate area of the toilets and changing rooms I heard stories about their lives, laughter, banter, boredom, drinking, glamour and camaraderie. I was there when the outfits were chosen for each strip…and there when they returned naked holding their discarded clothes and still wearing their heels.

For Complicité I work in the rehearsal rooms where I observe the exploration of them making a piece of theatre in a private space. Nothing here is posed it is a very intense period where play, analysis, language and movement become entwined and I feel and record these moments that are part of the process of creating a piece that is then shown in the public space.