In a moment of vanity or masochism (it could have gone either way) I decided to let AI loose on me. The prompt used was “Tell me…

For some reason, I’ve taken far fewer pictures in 2024. Maybe it’s a lack of motivation, maybe it’s because I’ve exhausted the ‘best’ subjects, maybe it’s because…

So why a series of colour photos? I think we need to place that responsibility firmly with Batsceba 🙂 After all, 95% of my pictures are in…

I think I might be an incredibly dull person. I don’t eat meat; I don’t drink and I’ve never had a cigarette in my life. And yet…

Last year I was asked to write an article on After the Coal Dust for Yorkshire History & Heritage Magazine. The full article is featured below. AFTER…

I never really set out to create the ‘100 Faces Project’. All I really do is wander around and point a camera in the general direction of…

On the street, in real life, there is no Rembrandt or Butterfly lighting arrangements. We are illuminated by the fluorescent lights in cafes or the glow from…

Toby jugs and vibrators – tales from the car boot sales

Travellers horse fair and internet ‘experts’

A while back I posted an article called Photographers, perverts and paranoia – it might be time for an update. I had an interesting, if somewhat tense,…

I’ve broken the internet! A couple of days back I posted this photo from a few years back in to a Facebook group. I quite like the…

When I was a kid, we didn’t have holidays. There was no car, no money, and my father had long since disappeared with his debts and booze….

Quite a successful year, exhibitions in both the UK and Japan and another few hundred pictures for the archives. Here’s a short selection of photos taken this…

One of the questions I get asked most often is ‘where do you find all these characters?’ My usual answer is along the lines of ‘they’re everywhere’….

2020 will forever be associated with Covid-19. The street photography opportunities have been very restricted and look as though they will be for a while to come….

Street photography has always been contentious; plenty of people have objected to it for their various reasons; privacy, the motives behind it, it’s boring, they don’t ‘get…

Being prevented from going out hardly provides the best opportunities for street photography. Unlike many we have stuck to the guidelines, only going out for essential shopping…

A short while ago I posted this picture online, a candid street photo like many others. One of the comments was “He looks as though he needs…

Words about my father So what do I know? I have a vague memory of deep set eyes and heavy eyebrows. A slender frame with hairy arms….

A lot of people dislike street photography. A lot of photographers dislike street photography. That’s okay, I understand that. What I don’t understand is those ‘photographers’ who…