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Actually a friend of mine has very differnet experience with him and he worships him. It was a few years ago when I was doing research for my, well, research paper. Contacted a number of photographers, famous and not famous including Martin Parr and Simon Norfolk. They either got back to me to say they are happy to help, or they are very busy but can spare 5 mins and no more etc, or just simply ignored me. Mr Parr, replied to me within 24 hours with an essay long reply saying how busy he is, how many students would contact him on a daily basis, and if he spends time replying to everyone and offers help to everyone then he will have no time to do his own work etc. Can't remember the exact content of the email, but it was not far from telling me off for contacting him, and if he could write that long an email with list of reasons why he can't answer a few simple questions, surly he'd have the time to just answer a couple of questions? Told my tutors about my experience and was told, "yap, we have heard it all..."
Then went for a talk a while after that, he is nothing but an arrogant asshole.
Simon Norfolk is a very very nice guy on the other hand.
However, the biggest jerk of all has to be Rankin. Oh yes, I have a few interesting stories about him.