“Dominant” Photography Culture

Iconic, classic photographs seem almost to magically appear, fully formed with their accompanying public sentiment, mythos, and impact. This may be because those images tend to be tied strongly to a current event which enters the zeitgeist as news, widely shared and discussed, relevant to the conversation. In the last few years those photographs have...

Port Talbot: Easter Bank Holiday, 2024

Until now my time in Wales was limited to the Brecon Beacons where I've documented Green Man festival there across a few years. Port Talbot is decidedly not the Brecon Beacons, in fact I've read some opinions that it is the worst place in Wales to visit at all. https://i.imgur.com/7lgd24X.jpg A large factor in this...

Requested Portraits from India: February – March 2024

During my recent visit to India many people asked me to make their portrait, which I am used to from my previous travels, however unlike my first two trips I was more comfortable saying yes and doing my best in the moment. I think you can tell the times I was mildly inspired and made...

January, 2024

After a project-filled close to 2023, and equally busy few days at the start of the year I had a bit of breathing room to start to map out where I want to sake things with this year. I had about a week with no events or anything lined up, so was able to take...

Making a Photography Project, Step One: Having an Idea

Going from having no idea to having an idea is possibly the most difficult creative step, which is partly why I prefer to overcome it "first". This is the area of photography, and maybe life in general, which presents the most stress, trial and error, anguish, and pain. From directionlessness to direction, no idea to...

London New Years Day Parade, 1st January 2024

At 00:01 this morning I was stood on London Bridge doing my best to make photographs in what really was a particularly uninspiring environment. I've gone to London Bridge over the years to document the celebration as the new year comes into being, and have made some decent images, but today felt very different, even...

Christmas Eve, Day, & Boxing Day 2023

Over the holiday period I spent my time working towards one of my local projects, a documentation of a small high-street Hindu Temple. They take advantage of the quiet around Christmas to celebrate their analogy of the Sabarimala Ayyappan pilgrimage which takes place each year in Kerala. https://i.imgur.com/7nKKVyi.jpg I have worked on documenting this community...

Winter Solstice 2023

For a few years now I've been working on a project involving Stonehenge during it's use over the Summer and Winter Solstices as an active religious/spiritual site. I realised I haven't done a proper write up of any of these instances outside of a more critical use of the work in a side by side...

Photography Foundation Christmas Fair and Gathering

I recently took part in a photography community gathering and fair, after seeing a call for stall-holder participants on social media. I haven't done much in the way of in person sales with my zines, books, and prints, as this kind of marketplace has not been too common since Covid-19 shifted everything online. I thought...

Make Your Photographs “Work”

For a photograph to "work" you have to first decide what you want it to work for. Will an abstract, experimental portrait "work" to illustrate an article about a businessman in a finance magazine? Maybe. Will a macro still life of a bug "work" as part of a picture-essay from a war zone? Unlikely, but...