Last month, I prefixed my first Christmas in Scotland since 2019 with 3 ferocious nights of live music. Two of my all-time favourite Scottish bands, Idlewild and Mogwai, were playing over 3 successive nights. Idlewild were belatedly celebrating the 20th… Read More »Idlewild and Mogwai. December 2022
Though we may not know who first coined the nebulous phrase street photography, they certainly have a lot to answer for. Not only is the name of this beloved genre of ours so broad as to be almost meaningless; it… Read More »Where do we make street photography?
Understanding what street photography is brings us, rather helpfully, to the question of why we make street photography. The words of Garry Winogrand are an appropriate place to start in answering this question: “I photograph to find out what something… Read More »Why do we make street photography?
Though hardly groundbreaking, I have often found the tail-end of the calendar to be a good time for reflection. A moment to look forward to the new year and make plans. A time to look back on the previous 12… Read More »2022: A Top 5
Procrastination is a silly thing. Putting off that daunting task lest you have to confront it. In my case it was finally pulling my socks up and adding a prints shop to my website. Weeks, if not months, of letting… Read More »Prints Shop Now Live
I first took up photography at a transitional time in my life. Too many fireworks, the indie record label that I owned and managed was on hiatus and I was desperate for something creative to do. 6 months of self-taught… Read More »A Return to Live Music Photography
In Magnum’s excellent online on-demand course, ‘The Art of Street Photography‘, Carolyn Drake acknowledges the difficulty in defining Street Photography. “I think every photographer should define what the street means to them in their own way. There’s no one way… Read More »What IS Street Photography, Anyway?
I am, when you get right down to it, lazy. In fact, while not being particularly untidy, I do remember when I lived on my own there was a receipt from Żabka for fruit juice and a Kit-Kat that lay… Read More »“What’s In Your Bag?”
Known for his aggressive, (literally) in-your-face working practices of Street Photography, Bruce Gilden is something of a master of the craft. His first long-term project was to walk the streets of his native New York City and create something of… Read More »A Week At Leica With Bruce Gilden
As a photographer, and a keen follower of surrealism, Paris has for a time been something of an omphalos for my interest in the visual and written arts. The city of Breton, Aragon, Soupault, and Eluard. An adopted home of… Read More »A Weekend at Magnum with Richard Kalvar