The Europa League winner turned director, actor, DJ and photographer
Alfie Whiteman scans the self-portraits on display at a Grade II listed art gallery inside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the ones he took of himself hanging out of a tumble dryer, celebrating a birthday alone in the woods and sitting naked on a jetty staring out over Sweden's Lake Mockeln. "There was no intention of anyone ever seeing these pictures," he laughs. "But that also just reflects how I was living before - I kind of split my life in two.
" Whiteman was on the bench when Spurs won the Europa League in Bilbao. Less than a year since that success he is showing BBC Sport his new exhibition having retired at just 26 a few months later. An open-top bus parade through the north London streets where he grew up was the culmination of more than 15 years with the boyhood club he joined aged 10, having watched them lift the 2008 League Cup at Wembley with his dad.
"I was waving at my friend and sister like 'I'll be home in a sec just doing a loop round the block! '," he says about the Europa League celebrations. "There was a youth centre I used to help out in and one of the kids was like 'Hey!
What are you doing there! '" Whiteman had offers to stay in the game when his Tottenham contract expired last summer, trialling with Championship and League One clubs, but instead decided to focus on his work as a photographer and film director. Stepping away was a huge decision, though, for a goalkeeper who could have played on for more than a decade.
One coach told him retiring would be a "crime". "I called my agent because I had to be like 'stop, I'm not going to go to this club…' and he was really understanding," says Whiteman. "But I didn't tell anyone, I didn't do an Instagram post like 'guys just so you know…' no one cares about that.