I like to have a fairly spontaneous approach to my photography, photographing the world as I find it. This is not to say that my intention is always to photograph reality – far from it sometimes.
I like to use my photography to make a personal interpretation of wherever I find myself and whatever is in front of me. I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and trying to be a little creative to come up with something a bit different.
I’m generally trying to photograph how a place feels, or capture the essence of a place, rather than what it looks like.
I’m always looking to make an interesting photograph out of something ordinary rather than an ordinary photograph out of something interesting.
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Creative.
I’m currently experimenting in a variety of creative techniques including multiple exposure, intentional camera movement, motion blur, defocused exposures and situational textures/filters such as Perspex or glass.
Dark
Dark Spaces and Natural Light. I find places like caves, quarries, tunnels, storm drains and dark interiors fascinating because of the way the light can fall in them.
Detail
Details and Small-Scale Scenes. Often it is the smaller scenes and details which can best capture the essence of a place. Also, it is when you look more closely and on a smaller scale that you are more likely to find the unusual, the interesting or the overlooked in seemingly ordinary places.
Scape
Scapes and Trees. As with much of my photography, when I photograph a landscape I’m not really so concerned about the actual subjects in my scene but more about the light, lines, colours shapes, composition, mood and feel. I do love a good bunch of trees though.
Street photography
Within this rather broad genre I find my photographs often fit into one or more of these themes:
Pictorial. In this theme the photograph’s strength lies in its composition and use of light, colour and geometry. People may be in it but are not the main subject.
Fleeting Interactions. I’m really interested in the concept of passing strangers, exchanged glances and brief interactions – the way in which individual worlds which may be very different to each other coincide in the street or other public environment.
Separation. This is linked to the Fleeting Interactions theme but is more about how those lives which co-exist on the street remain separate via physical or social barriers. Also the way in which a photograph can capture these often highly separate and different lives or groups within the same scene.
Storytelling, Documentary and Questions. I find value in photographing ordinary behaviour because sometimes what on the surface seems ordinary can start to seem more idiosyncratic the more you consider it. For example, the traditional ways in which people spend their leisure time at a British seaside town is to me quite fascinating and in some ways unique to this type of location.
