Victorian photographers have been a major influence on Jeremy’s work. It was seeing Lewis Carrol’s Saint George and the Dragon for the first time that inspired him to stage tableaux in the first place. He was fascinated by the Victorian idea that the camera recorded only facts, yet their artists would stage elaborate costumed tableaux reenacting fantastic scenes from literature and history. The production qualities of these Victorian images were quite amateurish by today’s standards, often times with only an old blanket or two serving as a backdrop. Before the advent of real photojournalism, Carrol, along with Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Gustave Rejlander and a host of many others would go as far as staging scenes depicting the plight of the poor. Jeremy was fascinated with how the Victorians entertained themselves. There was no TV. He liked the idea of having people over for a spot of tea and crumpets to enact and photograph a scene from Shakespeare.