Channel 4 News at 25: Tim Lambon
Updated on 30 October 2007
Former cameraman now assistant foreign editor Tim Lambon has filmed in war-zones around the world. But his favourite moment comes from somewhere far more esoteric...
People would think that my favourite moment in making television for Channel 4 News over my long association with the programme (since 1993!) was probably in some war.
But they would be wrong.
And we're talking real sculpture here, none of your Henry Moore abstractions. These were classical. Romantic. Delicious.
My favourite moment was in a white tiled Victorian dairy. It's only relation to conflict was that it was around the corner from the Imperial War Museum in South London. There the connection ends.
For me it was a wonderland of form. To look at the walls was to step into a sculptor's sketch book. I'd never realised that a 'sketch' for a sculptor is a plaster cast of part of a statue.
And we're talking real sculpture here, none of your Henry Moore abstractions. These were classical. Romantic. Delicious.
I had been scrambled in to cover for a staff cameraman who's car needed the garage, and it was one of the most memorable shoots of my life.
Being inimitably Nick Glass, it was all angles, camera movements and time lapse sequences.
For once my eye was trained on beauty all day, rather than my usual stock-in-trade, the horror of war and violence. It was a serene day. A very white day.
A day that I can revisit whenever I wander through the recreated 17th Century gardens at Hampton Court Palace, for which the statues under the chisel were being created.
