‘Records are a window to the soul’

“We’re united in our love of Keith Haring,” says DJ and musician Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, of his friendship with photographic artist Mark Vessey. While Cook’s admiration for the American pop artist and his graphic, cartoon-style imagery is evident in his vast collection of pop-culture ephemera, Vessey’s is more specific: one of his photographs depicts a colourful pile of Haring books. When the pair first met at Cook’s Hove home in 2018, “I had a stack of Keith Haring…