A Shimmer of Possibility Jung s kim It was while Michael Bond It was while Michael Bond was working as a television cameraman for the BBC that he first came up with the idea for Paddington and he recalls in his own words how this came about: "I bought a small toy bear on Christmas Eve 1956 48 Page softcover 21cm x 16cm book with card wraparound cover in an edition of 300 copies Paul Graham's a shimmer of possibility was quickly hailed as "one of the most important advances in contemporary photographic practice that has taken place in a long while" and marked a paradigm shift in the medium but nothing is foreclosed either