Richard Billingham - From my family ... to other animals by Tim Adams
From the website: In the end, his escape route as an artist has been the same one he took from his childhood in Cradley Heath. In those days, in rare breaks from the monotony of poverty, his mum took him by bus to Dudley Zoo. The oddness of those encounters with the exotic - gorillas and giraffes in the heart of the urban West Midlands - stayed with him. He became a tower block natural historian; David Attenborough was his hero.
