The show is down. What it was like to stand in the middle of it for a week.

Mark Stephens, media lawyer, in his yellow-walled office

Hunter Davies, journalist and Beatles biographer

Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring, Eland Books

Jo Wood and Steve Chapman – arranged loosely after Hockney

A drawing after Saul Steinberg’s photograph of himself with a life-sized cutout of his younger self

The idea that has kept coming back, and the shape it has taken in the work

Ben Akers and his nine-year-old self

Joel Levack and Phil Tidy, hot-desking in a former film studio in Soho

Julian Rothenstein, Redstone Press, in his home office in north Kensington