Photography
My photography
I use photography to show something about where I’ve been or people whom I’ve met. As well as trying to see the beauty in a scene or situation, I’m also trying to convey ideas and feelings. My photography is about me and what I do, who I meet and where I go. All my photography tries to be contemporary and creative. I’m resistant to being fitted in to a taxonomy by categorisation such as “travel” or “conceptual” or “nature”. All image-making is political simply by the act of selection and hence exclusion but I am not campaigning for any particular point of view, except to try to see the positives and to live life to the full.
I use 645, 35mm and DX formats plus a handy little digital compact that shoots RAW files. I’ve experimented with non-lens photography - do ask!
I first worked in a monochrome/silver wet darkroom at age 7, helping my Father with scientific prints; I’ve used colour negative materials since age 21 and digital since 2005. I use Photoshop (Adobe) and Photopaint (Corel).
Waterloo Bridge roundabout
Waterloo Road
View from the steps of Waterloo railway station, London SE1
Wide-eyed in Waterloo: I find there’s a skyscraper or a railway arch at the end of almost every street. Down Waterloo Road from the railway station and passing The Hole in the Wall pub and the LCC fire station to revisit Lower Marsh market, La Barca restaurant and the Ian Allen Book & Model shop. The army surplus shop is still going too, along The Cut between the Old Vic and the New Vic theatres. All places that I first explored on my meal breaks from working at London Weekend Television on the South Bank.
More photos: Waterloo - a skyscraper at the end of every street
A walk around the front gardens in Preston Park, Brighton. Such variety and imagination on show from these dedicated gardeners, the result of their hard work.
My photographs of and around Ullswater from a sunny September weekend based in Glenridding in the Lake District National Park
Prospect Cottage and garden, Dungeness, by Derek Jarman (1942-1994)
My walk around the cottages, shacks and industrial relics on the shingle beach which create the ambience of this apparently remote corner of Kent.
The Wild West in Kent - Samson hauling a pssenger train at Denge Beach, Dungeness - Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch light railway (RH&DR) - but see my following photos when the train is close and the illusion is broken.
