A life in monochrome, mostly
SOME Photographs
Recent Blethering On Photography
Techniques for Candid Street Photography
As a street photographer teaching high school photography, my students are often fascinated by the c…
More Recommended Reading for Street Photographers
My recent compulsion to spend what little disposable income I have on photo books does not seem to b…
The Art of Photographing Faces
In On Reading, a concise collection of photographs by André Kertész, there is a picture made in The …
Recent Blethering NOn Photography
BFI 100: 83 – Darling (1965)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best fil…
BFI 100: 84 – Educating Rita (1983)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of…
BFI 100: 85 – Brassed Off (1996)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of…
PHOTOS, MOSTLY – A NewsLETTER
Photos, mostly is a regular publication of essays on the philosophy and practice of street photography. Regular extras include a digest of my writing on photography from elsewhere, some new photographs, the latest photography news, and advice to improve your photography out there on the street.

ABOUT ME
I’m a shy though loquacious, youthfully middle-aged, Scottish Varsovian street photographer. I teach photography, most recently at Akademickie Liceum Ogólnokształcące (PJATK) in Warsaw. I write about photography for Shoot It With Film, and occasionally on 35mmc.
Described by the British Academy of Photography as a prodigious talent, and by critics as a surrealist at heart with an eye for irony and amusing little moments, I spend my days walking the streets looking for the unexpected, as well as the unconventional, and the contradictory.
I have shown exhibitions in the 13th Note cafe, the National Scottish Football Museum – both in Glasgow – and in Ckio, near Warsaw, Poland.
My work has been published in the Glasgow Herald, The Sunday Mail, The Reykjavik Grapevine, the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, the Big Issue, The Skinny, The List, and on several record covers.
I am an alumnus of the Magnum Professional Practices series and have also completed masterclasses with Magnum photographers Richard Kalvar and Bruce Gilden, in Paris and London respectively.
I shoot with Kodak Tri-x 400 film on Leica iiif, M3, and M6 cameras, mostly.
Get in touch
If you like what you see, or would like to say hi, drop me an email. I’m open to creative collaborations both audible, and visual. Prints will be available sometime in the future, though for now if you’d like to buy or use something, feel free to ask.