A collection of short articles on photography

Review of the year 2022
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…

Where do you find all these characters?
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’….

Review of the year 2020
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 After Coronavirus
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…

Street Photography and the Lockdown
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…

I’m a photographer, please let me patronize you.
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
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….

I’ve never been to New York!
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…

An hour in Leeds
If you look too hard for photos they probably won’t be there. Just be ready for when they are 🙂 One of the questions that seem to…

The Seaside
Scarborough and Bridlington – A photographer’s paradise I never really had holidays as a kid. No transport, no father, and no money. The closest we got was…

Photographing the Homeless
A few thoughts on photographing the homeless This man was trying to get enough money for few nights in a hostel that would take him and his…

Leeds street photos – a few out-takes
One of the problems with street photography is there’s inevitably a lot of failures. Lots of camera shake, out of focus pictures and plenty of pictures that…

Far right demo in Leeds 7th September
A few photos from the pro and anti Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (or Tommy Robinson as he likes to be called so that he appears to be a man…

Photographers, Perverts and Paranoia
Photographers are the bad guys now. A few days back a friend of Bridget’s was taking pictures in Bradford city centre, the City Park. Bridget’s friend is a keen…

Photographs from Leeds Pride 2019
I’m not the world’s greatest ‘event’ photographer. There’ll be far better pictures that capture the colour of the LGBT Pride parade and characters than I could take….

Cold Turkey – coming off anti-depressants
A photographic essay depicting the side-effects of ant-depressant withdrawal. 15 years or so ago I was prescribed a high dose anti-depressant (Dosulepin) as a muscle relaxant for…

Film vs Digital
Moving back to film? Ricoh GR1v Ilford HP5 Almost all the photographs on this site are shot on digital cameras. I haven’t shot on film for a…

Redcar – Fashionably unfashionable
There was a recent article in the Guardian Newspaper about the effects on industrial towns when the main industries close. This tied in closely with the After…

The angry mob
This is a local group…there’s nothing for you here! Over the years we’ve taken thousands of pictures, several hundred of these have been posted on social media….

Photo Competitions – why they’re not for me!
I get asked quite often why I don’t enter competitions, the British Journal of Photography ‘Portrait of Britain’ competition being one of them. Part of the problem…