We’ve just come out of the third or fourth heatwave of the summer, Marta’s gone off for a holiday with her friends, and I’m sitting with our dog, Lottie, in the relative cool of our north-west-facing windows. After my own… Read More »f/Stops #1: Vandalism, Struggle Memes and Defining America
It’s summer! Half a year has shot past since I last wrote to you. Back then, I was looking at the year behind us and sharing some wee stories. Now, I’m choosing to press the reset button, and I wanted… Read More »Photos, mostly becomes The Contact Sheet
I composed the State of Street Photography in late 2023 and published on February 28th, 2024. To keep the post relevant after 2 and a half years, I have made more significant edits than to the other Photos, mostly posts.… Read More »The State of Street Photography 2026
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on December 31st, 2025. Hi, I last wrote to you in July when I got to premiere a wee film my friend made of me cutting about… Read More »Hi Chaos: Looking Back at 2025
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on July 16th, 2025. In a previous life as a musician and underachieving record label owner, I was lucky enough to do some memorable things. Radio, TV,… Read More »My Life As A Thief
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on October 23rd, 2024. Photos, mostly comes to you a week early this October, and at the expense of my usual havering on street photography. Instead, this month,… Read More »Conversations, mostly 01: A Conversation with Wesley Verhoeve
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on December 27th, 2023. It is almost unthinkable now that there was a time when photography was available only to those with expertise. Early photographers needed knowledge… Read More »Photos, Mostly 14: You Press The Button, We Do The Rest
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on November 29th, 2023. It would be fair to say that Charles Baudelaire had complex feelings on the matter of photography. Despite finding himself in front of… Read More »Photos, Mostly 13: The Fugitive and the Infinite
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on October 25th, 2023. I have heard many times that the road to hell is paved with good intentions but my own particular highway is instead pockmarked… Read More »Photos, Mostly 12: I Know You Are But What Am I?
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on September 27th, 2023. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. This well-worn epigram is attributed to the Canadian ice-hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky (or, maybe, Michael… Read More »Photos, Mostly 11: The Disponible Street Photographer