Before diving into the story, a brief explanation of what this – wholly unremarkable – image portrays. This is a London “mews house”, a type of property built by/for wealthy, qu...
17 March, 2026
Separate but Together – A Father/Son Journey – Part 1
Here we are: me (left) on one of the main corners of the Ginza in Tokyo last month (Dec 2025) and Dad (right) in the summer of 1979. Somewhere near Seattle, if my memory serves....
22 February, 2026
Looking back from the other side
Image above: Rows of galleys and pages. And yeah, most everyone smoked back then. Sept 25, 1977. I was a year out of journalism school and working the first of my eventual five ...
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....
9 November, 2025
The Story of the Chinese Farmer
In June 2017, I watched the massive blood-red Strawberry Moon rising up behind the Copacabana skyline and decided to break my long-standing travel rule: Even in places where you...
2 November, 2025
My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer
I have always been a documentary photographer, just not a paid one. That all changed in 2010, I was commissioned by a man called John Casson whom I had met at a dinner party I w...
15 October, 2025
Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.
I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...
This is the second part of my article, Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey. If you haven’t read the first part yet, I recommend doing so — it provides useful background, h...