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Between Seeing and Being: The Intrinsic Reality
Ethical question
23 October 2025
Between Seeing and Being: The Intrinsic Reality
Between the seen and the felt, photography reveals two truths—the captured and the perceived—where meaning lives in the tension between…
Dream no. 169 – Below birds the sky
Intimacy
13 January 2025
Dream no. 169 – Below birds the sky
A large flock of birds in the sky over Northern Ireland.Summer 1993 Dream no. 169 Maybe, I have to stayMaybe,…
Chalk-stone-white: The Seven Sisters
Surrealism
19 December 2024
Chalk-stone-white: The Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters, the English Channel. We stand on the beach-head, the sky darkening, suspended in a container of fog…
Here for the Golden Ratio
One Photo Story
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…
The Fictional: London as Filmset
Surrealism
19 April 2024
The Fictional: London as Filmset
In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for…
Are sexy phones dialling down?
Other stories
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…
The Pilgrimage: A Psychogeography of Loss
Intimacy
27 January 2024
The Pilgrimage: A Psychogeography of Loss
Our beloved dog, Misza, passed away on November 14, 2023. The same day, in 1905, that Rasputin first met Tsar…
Scarecrow
One Photo Story
2 December 2023
Scarecrow
Loneliness is the absence of noise. Silence is the numbing of life. The poet: a restless soul, unable to awaken…
Mounting the Scaffold
Other stories
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…
Beach scape like a tabula rasa
Other stories
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…
Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive
Ethical question
19 August 2023
Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive
“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is…
Leadenhall Lovers?
One Photo Story
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…
Nostalgia: a life disrupted by war
Other stories
31 December 2022
Nostalgia: a life disrupted by war
The story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you…
Abracadabra: London’s Transcendent Reverse
Surrealism
6 August 2021
Abracadabra: London’s Transcendent Reverse
These photographs are the first in new series which looks at what lies on the periphery, between the realm of…
The Truth. A reflection on life in quarantine in London
Surrealism
13 April 2021
The Truth. A reflection on life in quarantine in London
The photography essay ‘The Truth’ is a reflection on life in quarantine in London and subtle encounters with death during…
I Am Always Here
Other stories
9 March 2021
I Am Always Here
The photographs in this series chart a personal journey on the banks of the Blackwater estuary on the Essex coast.…
Still life photography
One Photo Story
8 October 2020
Still life photography
The still life photographer makes pictures rather than takes them. Creativity is the foundation of still life photography
Summer heat
One Photo Story
6 July 2020
Summer heat
How is it even possible to photograph something that you can’t touch, something that you can only feel… like summer…
Greetings from afar
One Photo Story
27 June 2020
Greetings from afar
Everyone communicates differently: daily texts, occasional phone calls, long video chats - modern technology helps a lot… But what about…
Reflections
One Photo Story
25 June 2020
Reflections
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”Edith Wharton People we…
