He lost the college grant, “which was feeding our parents.”Īnd so, to the supermarket. Eventually, Bolofo was expelled for failing to turn in the required work. He spent all his time in the darkroom, or wandering the cafeteria looking for girls to photograph. It would still be unheard of.”īolofo arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1970, aged eleven, a refugee from South Africa, and found himself living in a rough London council estate, full of “skinheads and racism.” At Ealing College of Higher Education, where a few years later Bolofo began studying art, resources were scant, so students passed a camera around as a group, trying to remember whose frame was whose. “To say you worked in a supermarket would be unheard of. “You had to have this pretense-‘Daddy’s quite rich,”’ Bolofo says, wryly. In the early 1980s, when Koto Bolofo made his first pictures for British Vogue, he worked night shifts at a West London supermarket. Koto Bolofo worked at a London supermarket while trying to break into the fashion world.
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