Articles on Photography

Articles – short written pieces on photography

This page brings together articles on street photography, documentary work, and the ideas behind making images. Some pieces are reflective, some are practical, and others look at how photographs are read, shaped, and shared.

Far right demo in Leeds 7th September
8 September 2019
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 of the people) demos in Leeds yesterday. Fortunately,…
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Photographers, Perverts and Paranoia
21 August 2019
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 amateur photographer who uses a Canon 5D DSLR.…
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Photographs from Leeds Pride 2019
14 August 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. My approach to Leeds Pride 2019 was that…
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Cold Turkey – coming off anti-depressants
11 August 2019
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 a chronic spinal condition. A couple of years…
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Film vs Digital
25 July 2019
Moving back to film? Almost all the photographs on this site are shot on digital cameras. I haven’t shot on film for a long time but I have hundreds of negatives I’ve taken over the…
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Redcar – Fashionably unfashionable
3 June 2019
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 Coal Dust project Bridget and I have…
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The angry mob
6 April 2019
Over the years we’ve taken thousands of pictures, several hundred of these have been posted on social media. Facebook groups in particular have been useful in getting the photographs seen by a wider audience. In…
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Photo Competitions – why they’re not for me!
14 February 2019
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 is that you have to pay to entry.…
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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside…Rhyl
18 November 2018
A couple of hours in Rhyl, North Wales. The last time I was in Rhyl was when I was ten or eleven years old. Apart from having to spend a week with the stepdad from…
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Cutting the Crap
2 September 2018
Street Photography – Cutting the Crap Think of a street photographer, one of your favourites. It could be anyone from CartierBresson to someone whose pictures you like on Facebook. Now think about their photographs, the…
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The camera never lies…
18 July 2018
….but the truth is open to interpretation! I’m always fascinated by the reactions some of the photos get and how preconceptions can influence the interpretation of the image. One of the things I aim for…
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The backlash against street photographers
26 June 2018
Watch out there’s a photographer about! I don’t know if it’s just here in the UK but there seems to be a growing suspicion and even open animosity towards photographers, especially street photographers. Recently someone…
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