The Barbican - July 2017
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When I were a lad this was all fields...
I knew that was something that grown ups often said, and although on some occasions I did attempt to imagine what the area looked liked before it was a B&Q and car park, most of the time it meant little to me.
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I've never, until now, understood the impact of the age of 10...
Read MoreThe path underneath Junction 6 is super reinforced concrete and one of the toughest road materials in existence. Not something you want to drop a rare 35mm film camera on, which of course I duly did just before taking this shot...
Up the Junction!
A few weeks ago I hosted the immensely talented Photographer Andy Feltham to a morning's shoot in my fair home town of Birmingham. The urban sprawl and fine examples of brutalist architecture had my guest in eager anticipation for the shoot, however; there was only one problem - the examples of 1960s concrete creations are rapidly disappearing...
Read MoreOnce they were homes
Behind the Image #24
Him: " Do you know 500 people have told me that I am the most interesting person they have met that day."
Read MoreA private function
My office move has finally happened and I am now used to my new home. To mark the occasion - the building opening, not me moving in to it, its official opening ceremony took place a few weeks ago along with a section of my ...
Read MoreBehind the Image #23
There he is, keeping guard whilst his mate takes a lunch time pee in to a shop doorway. He's doing his best to look intimidating and is trying to work out how much of a threat I am with my camera....
Read MoreA day with Niall McDiarmid
The kids have gone back to school, freshers week is about start and so it is that time of year I look to expand my own knowledge and attend a workshop at the Photographer's Gallery. This year I was lucky enough to be a part of a street portrait workshop delivered by Niall McDiarmid. ,
Read MoreConey Island - Redux
As the saying goes, the best made plans of mice and men often go awry. The full day shooting I’d hoped for in Coney Island ended up being less than 1 hour. Although I had my trusted digital Fuji with me, on this trip I really wanted the practice of shooting medium format film
Read MoreBehind the image #22
Just before leaving for the annual family summer holiday my usual worries surfaced, wondering if I would be rolled back in to the sea by concerned whale watchers or whether my neon white skin reflecting in to the eyes is a potential public safety hazard.
Read MoreBye, bye Baker, bye, bye
Leaving, as it has shown recently, is a hard thing to do. However, this September I must leave Baker Building, my work based home of 6 years and move on to a purpose built office block in the City Centre.
Read MoreMessage errors: failed to load
As we move ever closer to a fully digitised world of unrelenting messages telling you what to think and buy, savour the failed, funny and accidentally poignant analogue billboard.
Read MoreBehind the image #21
With a football season of such extreme highs and lows nearly at an end, this image from my Portraits of Employees, Deceased, Retired, Left project seems to sum it up.
Read MorePhotographing the City Workshops
Following the huge success of the Janet Mendelsohn retrospective work in Balsall Heath, Birmingham photography collective somecities have produced a wonderful 10 week programme called Photographing the City. It even has a street photography workshop delivered by yours truly! The early bird price is a snip at only £250, so book on the Eventbrite details below whilst the offer is still available.
Read MoreBehind the image #20 - David Bailey Special
I once told the acclaimed author David Lodge that I was admirer of his work, only to be told to get lost as he was busy food shopping. It was only meantas a passing compliment rather than a demand of his private time, but nevertheless, from then on I decided to never meet my heroes. However, as the grim reaper continues to binge on our cultural icons this year, that particular rule has gone out the window.
Read MoreMemories are made of this
What is your first memory? Mine, I think, is aged 4 sitting on the back seat of my Dad's Morris Minor Traveller. I can see it now; the vivid deep maroon interior and the hot, cracked leather seats against my soft chubby legs...
Read MoreHappy New Year and back to the future... and the past
Now that the future predicted in Back to the Future is in the past, 2015 saw releases of equipment and camera technology from the likes of Canon, Nikon and Sony going way beyond our futuristic expectations. Not that you would always be able to tell just by looking at them. I'm not sure if it is the uncertainty of our present times but we no longer have the confident, Utopian designs and visions of the future.
Read MoreCapturing the question being popped...
Happy ever after
You may remember my blog last year where I featured André's secret popping the question to Suzanne.
Read MoreThe portraits of employees deceased, left, retired project
Just over a year ago I, along with another photographer Dylan Line got access to a north Birmingham factory to create a project . Trying not to have preconceived ideas, the factory provided a wealth of themes and projects to explore. In fact, too many.
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