5 January, 2025
Orwell’s Greenwich – A Photo Essay
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The opening sentence of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is, like...
17 December, 2024
10 Shots from the Toronto Skate Scene
All photographers can ultimately be divided into two categories: the hip or the lame. The former, for example, includes grizzled, chain-smoking photojournalists wearing bullet-r...
7 November, 2024
People’s Park Chengdu with an Olympus XA3 and expired Rollei RPX 400
I’m lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of months in Chengdu, China each year as part of my job and usually stay in the central part of town. I take a different film camer...
10 October, 2024
Soho (Needless To Say)
Dr Samuel Johnson once said something along the lines of ‘when a person is tired of London, they are tired of life’. For me, London is a city that I will never tire ...
15 August, 2024
Bilbao in November rain (A One-Shot Story)
We flew from Munich to Bilbao in mid-November 2022. Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, not far from the French border and located on the Atlantic Ocean. The city is known for i...
13 August, 2024
Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story
After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...
9 August, 2024
An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story
The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...
My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...