This is where I’ll be sharing a few thoughts now and again, on photography, on the odd business of making art with a computer, and on whatever’s caught my eye lately. I’ve spent most of my life behind a camera rather than in front of one, so writing about it all doesn’t come quite as naturally, but I’ll do my best.
There’s a good deal of ground to cover: I started out in a darkroom mixing my own chemicals, and somehow I’ve ended up here, making pictures with the help of a computer that’s cleverer than I am. I don’t suppose I’ll ever quite get used to that.
Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you’ll find something here worth lingering over. If any of it catches your eye, do have a look through the shop as well.
- The Photograph I Keep Going Back ToI have a great many old photographs, but there’s one I keep returning to, an old black and white shot from years ago, taken somewhere I couldn’t tell you the name of now if you asked. Nothing remarkable about the subject. Just light falling a particular way across an ordinary scene, the kind of thing… Read more: The Photograph I Keep Going Back To
- What the Laboratory Taught Me About PatienceBefore any of this, I spent a good many years in laboratories. Research work first, then teaching for a spell, and for a stretch that still makes people laugh when I mention it, quality assurance at a Guinness brewery. It’s not the sort of career you’d expect to lead anywhere near art, and for a… Read more: What the Laboratory Taught Me About Patience
- From the Darkroom to the Digital Canvas: A Photographer’s JourneyI was born in the 1940s, and photography found me early. In those days there was no pressing a button and seeing the result on a little screen: you mixed your own chemicals, you worked in the dark, and you waited. I remember the smell of the darkroom more than almost anything else from those… Read more: From the Darkroom to the Digital Canvas: A Photographer’s Journey