Standing in his mother's flower trough, three year-old Ken Dennis posed for a photograph before his Aunt was due to leave a life in Middlesex, for a future in America.
The retired journalist, now 79 recalls his earliest memory and expresses his growth from flower trough to Fleet Street.
Stepping out of the photograph and into the ink, Press Association was where Ken Dennis took his first steps into the career that would mark a future of challenges and memorable experiences.
Stepping out of the photograph and into the ink, Press Association was where Ken Dennis took his first steps into the career that would mark a future of challenges and memorable experiences.
Now pointing the camera in the other direction, Ken could not have imagined the little boy that he was could become, one of the first men allowed to explore the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl, Russia in 1986.
The Financial Times and the Daily Mail are just two newspapers that Ken has worked for throughout his years as a journalist: photographs continuing to capture memorable events in both his life and others.
The protesting young boy, who found little satisfaction in posing in a flower trough, has certainly experienced more peculiar surroundings in life as a journalist. Instead of objecting he has come to embrace them.
Ken’s life has prospered throughout and a transformation has been made from the cheeky three year-old that he remembers to a man of wise words and immense character.
Taking pleasure in his retirement, Ken Dennis has had the chance to reflect on his past, now placing the photographs in their frames. Swapping print in the newspaper for prints in the sand and the walk up Fleet Street for strolls up the beach.
