I find endless fascination in photographing still life. However, the way I may photograph objects tends to oscillate between a straight presentation of the thing photographed, a sort of “Here is this thing, here’s how it looks”, and a more graphical playfulness, more a “Let’s explore the visual possibilities of this object”. Of course, at [...]

The story of Garry Winogrand (see The Strange Case Of Garry Winogrand) and the sad tail end of his career got me thinking about art and obsession in general. The image of the great artist as tortured genius struggling with their demons and yet somehow overcoming all to produce great art is now pretty firmly [...]

…and why it’s all just a game.
I must admit that these days I spend quite a bit of time of scouring the internet for kindred spirits. It’s a sort of sanity check - a way of checking if It’s just me that’s thoroughly exasperated by some of the drivel, and the quasi mystical justifications for [...]

I’ve spoken in previous posts about selling Fine Art Prints on ImageKind but in this post I want to talk about the general premise of so called Fine Art Photography and the problems of finding the market to sell your prints to.
To get one thing out of the way right off - I call my [...]

I noticed an interesting post over on Christian Patterson’s blog - Speak, See, Remember - about his joint exhibition with Bill Owens, Flesh (Owens) and Sound Affects (Patterson). Notwithstanding what I said in my earlier post, The Trouble With Color Photography, I am a great admirer of Christian’s work. For me, he is that altogether [...]

The best selling books on photography are nearly always of the “How To…” variety. I find this a little sad - sort of like when someone asks you how you took a certain photograph when you wish they had asked you why. I long ago stopped even looking at such books as if I ever [...]

The working method I use and discussed in yesterday’s post, My Camera Behind The Eyes, is really based on control. I like to feel that I have controlled every every square inch of the frame. I guess, deep down I must admit that this compulsion is rooted in a subconscious fear that, as a serious [...]

In part 1 of this post I talked about influences and how they show up in your work. I mentioned that one of the photographers I admire is Charles Jones, an obscure English gardener/photographer working in the early years of the 20th century. I was very much drawn to the simple and compelling way that [...]

I love just looking at photographs. Obviously, along the way, inevitably I will keep coming back to the photographers whose work I particularly like for some reason. Equally inevitably, certain work will imprint itself into my mind. At this point, at some level, such work will, consciously or unconsciously, become an “influence” on my own [...]

I have a confession to make - I pick garbage up off the street and bring it home. Not because I’m on some sort of eco crusade to tidy up the streets of London, commendable though that may be, but to photograph. What first caught my eye was the interesting look of a drinks can [...]