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Camera Stories Chapter 2: The Voigtländer Vitoret 110 and the Wannabe Secret Agent
March 11, 2024 - Being a child of the 1970s has its advantages, although now being in my fifties is not what I’d consider to be one of th...
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Camera Stories Chapter 1: The Halina 110 Auto-Flip - Where it all started
February 24, 2024 - While out on one of my regular walks around town recently, I bumped into an old colleague of mine from around 20 years a...
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Camera Stories: An Introduction to Obsession
February 13, 2024 - It’s fair to say that photography is in my blood. My father and grandfather were both keen photographers, the former bec...
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The Only Choice I Made
February 08, 2024 - I know what you’re thinking: Where the hell have I been this past few months? Have I quit? Have I been ill? Am I dead, a...
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Prioritising the Shot: The Ethical Debate around Kevin Carter’s “The Struggling Girl”
November 04, 2023 - Something a little different this week. I thought I’d share an essay that I recently completed for my degree course, all...
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Check Your Bias at the Door
October 16, 2023 - As with previous projects for my course, I’ve chosen a challenging subject for this year. I’ve regularly been asked why...
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Somehow a Vital Connection is Made
October 04, 2023 - “How long has it been?” asked my friend. The question was followed by some rapid calculations, after which we realised t...
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A Penny Drops from Height
September 18, 2023 - “What the hell is she doing?!”, I ask in a strained whisper which, if there had been more distance between us, would hav...
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Kings of the Wild Frontier
September 08, 2023 - Is it just me, or is the world becoming an increasingly bizarre place these days? I deliberately use the word ‘bizarre’...
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More Eggs for Your Basket
August 24, 2023 - “Do you do anything other than swan about, drinking coffee?” These words, or a variation of them, have drifted across ma...
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Not Saying Cheese: When Collaborating Makes it Better
July 11, 2023 - “Well, I’m appalled at that”, I said as I sipped my mug of decaf. In the months since giving up all forms of caffeine, I...
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I Ain’t Afraid of No Change
May 06, 2023 - Afraid of change? Of course I am. Perhaps ‘afraid’ is the wrong word, but I am definitely a creature of habit who is app...
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The Need for Calm
February 17, 2023 - If you’re wondering why I’ve neglected this blog for a couple of weeks, the answer is that things have been fairly chaot...
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Artists Who Inspire Me: Philip-Lorca diCorcia
January 18, 2023 - Back in 2014, my wife and I found ourselves locked in a tumultuous period of change. We’d both left jobs at a company th...
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Lemme tell you a story
October 26, 2022 - As I write, I’m doing my usual ‘pause for reflection’ following the recent completion of a critical essay for my course.
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As you ‘like’ it
May 17, 2022 - As many of you know by now, I am currently studying for a BA(Hons) degree in Photography. It’s part-time so a long old c...
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The Rise of Face Value
May 10, 2022 - I was watching the news recently, something I try to avoid doing for long periods these days, because of some of the tru...
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