Who?
Me?
I am a photographer from West Sussex, currently based in London, specialising in shooting black and white film, with a particular focus on compositions and approaches that compliment the grand traditions of landscape photography without using traditional grand scales.
After decades of shooting only casually, focussing instead on work in video production and numerous disconnected professions, I chose to wipe the slate clean and re-learn photography from scratch, beginning in late 2019. As such, the collections below demonstrate the best of my black and white photography from 2019 to the present.
During my fresh start with photography, 35mm black and white film became my preferred medium for two reasons. Firstly, out of a deep appreciation of the analog process and the time that it allows for me to live with the images before I reach the stage of digital editing or taking my negatives into the darkroom. Secondly, out of simple economic necessity: black and white film and home processing is that much cheaper than colour film, and allows me to shoot a wider range of subjects with greater abandon and experimentation.
From this process of rebirth came the images and stories listed here. More stories are waiting in line, and my self-published zines and darkroom prints are available to purchase on request.
A selection of my work that explores more intimate and personally expressive approaches to landscape photography and the stories, characters and associations that the wanderer projects onto the world around them.
Using 35mm film to explore the textures and movements of a blacksmith’s process as he shapes iron in his forge.
My second self-published photo zine, documenting the turbulent, sweltering summer of 2022 in England across 64 pages of tabloid-sized newsprint paper.
My first self-published photo zine – a short story about travel, detachment and self knowledge, one summer in Scotland.
Intimate portraits of the stones that live on Ilkely Moor. The first in a series to examine and characterise the distinct clusters of natural stone formations in the peculiar site, known as Buckstones.
Stepping away from landscape work and project-based work to indulge in the joy of capturing and shaping the world as I see it.
Special selections from my much smaller back catalogue of work shot on colour negative and colour reversal film.