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Born in Scotland, he has shown in festivals and group shows internationally as well as in galleries in the UK, US, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Spain. A Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards, 2017, he won the Best Series award at Streetfoto, San Francisco, as well as being the series winner in the 13th Pollux Awards, Street category in 2019. He was a top 50 photographer in Photolucida Critical Mass 2023, and was selected as a Talent in Fresh Eyes 2024. He is a member of the iN-PUBLiC collective.
Here for the Golden Ratio
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29 August 2024
Here for the Golden Ratio
Applying the rule of thirds is commonly referred to in photography as the apogee of good composition. There are, of course, other compositional methods which can work just as well. Golden mean or golden ratio, used regularly in classical painting, or the double square method initially championed by Daubigny and…
Are sexy phones dialling down?
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1 March 2024
Are sexy phones dialling down?
“Nobody’s looking at each other. Everybody’s glued to their phones.” The preponderance of mobile phones made street photography unsexy according to Joel Meyerowitz, but then, hasn’t one of the tasks of street photography been to record the world as it is, warts (phones) and all? The world keeps evolving and…
Mounting the Scaffold
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13 September 2023
Mounting the Scaffold
As a place in constant flux, full of ephemera and the ephemeral, the city has long been an important site for photographers.
Beach scape like a tabula rasa
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22 August 2023
Beach scape like a tabula rasa
Often, during the summer months, I make trips locally to the North Norfolk coast. There, the promontories overlooking the beach at Cromer offer the chance to tilt the canvas, as it were, and test the graphic legibility of figures as they diminish in size across flat open space, away from…
Leadenhall Lovers?
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31 December 2022
Leadenhall Lovers?
There is, for sure, a narrative tension here, implied in the apparent psychological interplay between the two main male and female characters. The way her bare arm and watch necessarily align to the edge of the frame, suggests she has a finite amount of time.