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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, photographers including Richard Billingham, Martin Parr and Viviane Sassen share their images of love – of all kinds – and tell us why they chose them
Even though it’s been nearly three decades since I joined the Observer, if I close my eyes I can still see my colleagues from yesteryear … Jane Bown looking at a contact sheet by the lightbox, using her monocle eyeglass. Motorcycle couriers flirting with picture researchers. Reporters massaging the egos of alpha-male photographers, vying to become the next Don McCullin, the great photojournalist whose career began here. Men in shabby suits from now-defunct picture agencies, cigarette in hand as they hawked photo-essays from battered suitcases. The picture librarian ferrying files of blac...