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
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on August 30th, 2023. If you want to see the invisible, carefully observe the visible – Manuel Álvarez Bravo As a seasoned street photographer wading into the… Read More »Photos, Mostly 10: Everyone’s A Critic
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on July 26th, 2023. Someone sang a song and I sang along / Cause I knew the words from my childhood – Nobody’s Empire – Belle and Sebastian… Read More »Photos, Mostly 09: Film For The Future
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on June 28th, 2023. Not long ago, I looked wearily into our bathroom mirror at my shorn temple to see that indeed, hidden by the now departed… Read More »Photos, Mostly 08: O.K. Computer