11 July, 2026
Digital B&W … … with filters?
Should I use colour filters when shooting B&W on a digital camera? The resounding answer on the internet is, no, shoot RAW and you have more flexibility in casting to B&...
7 July, 2026
Striving for Balance in the Darkroom
After a mental health crisis involving one of my brothers earlier this month, I found myself withdrawing to the darkroom, churning out prints at a breakneck pace. At first, this...
My introduction to film photography was towards the end of the 1980’s when I got a job working in the darkrooms of a daily newspaper. The standard way to become a press ph...
I want to talk about something that has been going through my mind lately. I’ve been thinking a lot about the basic film photographer’s decision: Color or B&W? It’s funny ho...
1 July, 2026
I Photograph Landscapes, But I’m Not a Landscape Photographer – What Paul Strand taught me about looking past genre
The French composer Maurice Ravel, whom you likely know from his ubiquitous Bolero, lost his battle with history. Despite his protestations, he is now labeled an Impressionist, ...
27 June, 2026
Flags in Two Places
You keep seeing the flags, and hearing people talk. Someone remarks that there are “so many flags everywhere these days”, with a faintly conspiratorial smile. Then on my social ...
26 June, 2026
Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
I have known Phil Maxwell for about sixteen years. For a period, we both had studios in Spitalfields, in that strange zone where the East End was still recognisably itself but w...
19 June, 2026
My Zine Publishing Mis-Adventure, or: Where fools dare
Back in 2015 I had a self proclaimed “Self Publishing Misadventure” and in 2025 I can say that was a lesson I did not learn from. Recently I decided to make another self publish...
