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).
Bardonecchia Colonia Medail, refitted as the 2006 Olympic Village: architect Gino Levi Montalcini. Now a ski school.
The last lazy days of August in Sussex.
Order and disorder in one street in Brighton. The parallel worlds continue to the edge of the shot. Contrasting the geometrical regularity of the architecture with the fluidic anarchy of the street art. This is Oxford Place, Brighton.
Sacred and Profane: the contrasting spires of Clapham - the spire of the Catholic church of St Mary's is seen amongst the tops of the circus tents, for the time being.
