“Wood… seeming to invite himself into little temporary virtual studios in the street which are in effect controlled by his subjects. They pose for him, not specially self-consciously, but not without confidence or pride. They actively give him the look of themselves. And you begin to see not just the family resemblances or the quirky oddities of fashions from a while ago… You see beyond the conventional social anthropology of the photographer:  You begin to see… what is real in ourselves”

Francis Hodgson (From Mères, Filles, Soeurs Afterword)