Projects
Current Projects
My current projects are long term and “open ended” in the sense that they have no specific time frame for completion and they are generally not “locked down” to a tight brief. These projects often evolve over time through experience, the physical nature of photography and one’s immersion in the environment both real and imagined.
Reconstructing
The built environment is not a frozen landscape, inert, unflinching and sterile but one akin to jazz where there is movement, improvisation and an underlying and undeniable pulse that holds the pandemonium together.
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Towards the Light ……..Finding the Dark
An image isn't all about perfection, technique, clarity, rules and perfect balance. Life, memory and reality doesn't comply to these strictures, it's messy, hazy and ill defined at times and caught in snatches as we move quickly through the landscape or conversely life and landscape flows around us just on the edge of our consciousness.
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Safe Passage
As we mostly sleepwalk through our cities, unseeing and unaware of more than just the obvious, locked into a demanding and fast paced world saturated by the spectacle, I am seeking to find a different world, a different vision and a different speed in the unknowable city.
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Abstractions
I am not trying to provide empirical studies of buildings or landscapes here, these are not records or typologies but interpretations of light and shadow, structure and space.
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Summer in the City
In London when the sun comes out and it gets hot, the tops come off, bare chests prevail and the eccentrics spring forth, much like the flowers that bloom in the desert after rainfall, spectacular but short lived. Nobody barely notices, it part of London's rich tapestry.
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Les Merulies
In this project I explore memory, identity and community at a French farm through three generations of two families, French and British and their enduring friendship of over eighty years through the restoration of Les Merulies.
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Street
General street photography taken in candid style mostly around London rather than project based photography. This is where my ideas coalesce and sometimes turn into specific projects but for the most part this is just pure street photography providing me with inspiration, fun and practice.
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B&W
B&W film, the unforgettable chemical smell and taste and the bewilderment when an image appeared in the developer was where photography started for me. Moving to digital B&W just didn't work, it felt forced and insipid. Now some new digital cameras have changed that and it's time to experiment again.
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Travel
Travel photography for me is a dilemma, I like to travel light and immerse myself in the environment yet this type of photography needs the photographer to generally be an observer, not a participant, not obsessed by capturing a particular image. My travel photography is defined by my travel around my chosen destination a by-product of my exploration of place, space and people, rather than a specific image or style.
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