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).

The weather is settling here after some fierce storms with a fine dawn this morning. The clear blue of the night sky night giving way to powder pink and delicate apricot. The dirt of the city contrasting with the purity of the skies. The sun's rays eventually stream through the thick city air round one of the peaks of the Chaine de l'Étoile.
“New every morning” was the hackneyed title of a hymn book at school.

OK just gratuitous sunrise pictures with just a little justification from the conceptual point of view.