5 December, 2025
A Summer of Street Portraits on Film
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife,...
28 November, 2025
Spicy Gossip – My best photo of 2025
This is a shot from a visit to the local Farmers’ Market and gives me the most satisfaction, just about. The atmosphere there is always very sociable, with numerous eating optio...
26 November, 2025
No Kings – My photo of the year (so far) 2025
This photo was also part of a recent post I shared here on 35mmc. Apologies for sharing it twice in quick succession, but this image also fits the idea of my favorite photo of t...
18 November, 2025
Memories of J
“Through my lens, I intuitively aim to capture the joy of fleeting moments – it’s not about creating the perfect shot, but instead capturing and preserving a feeling or emotion....
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...