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).
Seagulls swooping at sunset over the Basilique de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, which looks over the historic port of Marseille.
29th February, the extra day every Leap Year when people paid monthly are working for nothing, isn’t that a con by the bosses! It’s also the last day of winter, according to the meteorologists’ calendar. Looks like spring to me for the crocuses (croci) at the bus stop at Brook Green on Hammersmith Road in West London. Of course that’s the bus stop for red buses at Brook Green, the green buses go from down the road at Hammersmith bus station.
Three piers on the Bristol Channel on a fine day out. Clevedon’s graceful ironwork pier (1869) has been bringing steamer passengers ashore since Victorian times. Weston super Mare’s Grand pier (1904) suffered a fire in 2008 and has been rebuilt with a modern pavilion. Also at Weston, Birmbeck pier (1848) has not been so lucky and is now in disrepair.
A hint of the urban spring in Hammersmith: sports motorbikes parked outside workplaces, rowing eights training on the river and the squirrels posing amongst the crocuses in Margravine cemetery, they are the most attractive of the urban beggars!
Striking doctors on picket line outside St Mary’s, Paddington. Support from passing vehicles and pedestrians was acknowledged with waves and shouted thanks. A model of a peaceful protest with support from their public: us, the users of the NHS. A huge contrast with the blockade by the taxi drivers of Marseille on Mardi Noir last month.
Many outpatients clinics were cancelled so the patient area was uncannily quiet. This is the second strike by junior hospital doctors in protest about major changes to their working hours and contracts. We haven’t experienced doctors strikes since 1975. St Mary’s has been more often in the news as one of the hospitals favoured by the royal family: Princess Charlotte was born here in May 2015, Prince George in July 2013.
