“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...

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...

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...

New Series: How to Make a Photography Project

I have been dedicating my time over the last few years towards producing photography projects, long-form essays to be published in zines and books, as physical documents each with a specific purpose. This is a process which rarely takes less than a few months, and I expect most will be ongoing for several years before...

East London Nagar Kirtan: Sunday 3rd September, 2023

Today I photographed along the Nagar Kirtan celebratory procession route from North Street Gurdwara in Barking to the Seven Kings High Road Gurdwara in Ilford. I've photographed Sikhi events before in Central London and Southall, but this was my first involvement with the community near where I now live in East London. https://i.imgur.com/543RT9E.jpg https://i.imgur.com/l3RYlYG.jpg I...

Upcoming Interview Series…

I've decided to start reaching out to photographers in order to feature their work and thoughts here on this blog. When I started in photography I would spend hours reading different thoughts and perspectives, and would really like to add to that resource by asking some in depth questions purely about process and personal experience....

Busy Final Weeks of May, 2023

Across every single day of the last two weeks of May I worked on two major projects, one centred around a Tamil Hindu Temple reconsecration ceremony in West Ealing, and the other picking up the threads of a project I started last year in Wellow, documenting their May Day celebrations. The timing worked out in...

Street Photography, “Winogrand Style”: Friday, 10th January 2020

Yesterday was the first day of the year I didn't spend out and about photographing, which left me feeling quite unproductive. My photography today was informed by my desire to both not lose my momentum, and also to try something relatively new for me. I had been inspired by a documentary about the late Garry...

My Weird Relationship With the 35mm Focal Length

Most photographers have their preferred focal length, which informs their approach to a scene, the style they shoot in, and can influence the look and feel of their images overall. When searching for what lens will serve them "best" many overlook the fact that sight itself is a physical and subjective thing. What works for...