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).
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.
This is what we find: familiar views but of Westminster as it is in September 2020: few tourists, scaffolding everywhere but still the buses all come along together even though they are almost empty.
It’s been a good summer for Brighton’s street artists: everywhere I look there is fresh new paint and humour: colour, curves and creativity brightening up drab, square inner-city spaces, parkings filled with grey cars or alleyways of bins and boxes.
