11 November, 2025
A Portrait on Velvia 50
I never shot Fujichrome Velvia for portraits, except, apparently, when I did. I have absolutely no recollection of making some frames I found in a box labelled “1998. Blue Banan...
It’s 2 o’clock and here I am dragging 50 homemade pinholes cameras into Copperwood, Boomtown’s 1920s Hollywood-inspired district. Boomtown is one of the UK’s biggest...
21 October, 2025
My friend Volkmar – Frames of a Life
Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor ...
20 October, 2025
Pretend Geisha – One Shot Story
This was in 2015, the same year I began the project Nansensu. A local TV celebrity came across my early work. She asked me to make something ‘darker than boudoir’, something pri...
14 October, 2025
Shielded – Photographing Ukrainian Refugees in Denmark
August 24th, the day when I began writing this article, marked the Independence Day of Ukraine. By coincidence, it is also a symbolic semi-annual cæsura of Russia’s full-s...
12 October, 2025
Portrait Photography – How I Approached Strangers at a Wedding
Last year, I was invited to a wedding, where I knew about 10 people out of the 130 plus guests. Unfortunately, they were working, so I was alone amongst a lot of people who were...
24 September, 2025
Day Out at The NPG – Part 2 – Kit – A One Shot Story
Towards the end of my article Day Out at The NPG, Part 1 – Eddie, I very briefly introduced our photographic model for the day. Kit, a gentleman in his late 70s who is a profes...
24 September, 2025
Reflections on an Impromptu Photo Shoot
At this stage, it happens fairly often: a conversation with a stranger that eventually leads to a photo. Sometimes I approach them, though often it’s the other way around....