This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on February 22nd, 2023. Sitting across my room sits a small, though ever-expanding, library of books containing tens of thousands of photographs. Each book represents an artwork… Read More »Photos, Mostly 04: Book Smart
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on January 25th, 2023. Photographing in the street for long enough, despite all efforts to the contrary, we will unintentionally upset someone. Whether a beginner of only… Read More »Photos, Mostly 03: Walk Unafraid
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on December 21st, 2022. Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst – Henri Cartier-Bresson Now 2 years into my return to street photography, and almost 20 since… Read More »Photos, Mostly 02: A Discerning Eye
This slightly edited post was first published on the Substack newsletter, Photos, mostly on November 15th, 2022. As a relic old enough to remember a time before the internet, I have lived through the exciting rise and often undignified fall… Read More »Photos, mostly 01: Social Media Exhaustion
Before photography, I was an indie-label underachiever. From 2002 until 2019, I owned and managed the Glasgow and Warsaw indie record label, Too Many Fireworks. On January 21st 2027, Too Many Fireworks will turn 25 years old. To celebrate, I… Read More »Too Many Fireworks. An Oral History, mostly. 2mf020
Before photography, I was an indie-label underachiever. From 2002 until 2019, I owned and managed the Glasgow and Warsaw indie record label, Too Many Fireworks. On January 21st 2027, Too Many Fireworks will turn 25 years old. To celebrate, I… Read More »Too Many Fireworks. An Oral History, mostly. 2mf013
Before photography, I was an indie-label underachiever. From 2002 until 2019, I owned and managed the Glasgow and Warsaw indie record label, Too Many Fireworks. On January 21st 2027, Too Many Fireworks will turn 25 years old. To celebrate, I… Read More »Too Many Fireworks. An Oral History, mostly. 2mf029
I don’t remember when I met Heidi Kuisma, but I do remember that I had found a kindred spirit. A Finn, at that time living in Glasgow, Heidi was (and still is) a talented, creative photographer who moved in similar… Read More »We Sink Ships
Continuing my almost forgotten journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. This time, A Clockwork Orange.… Read More »BFI 100: 81 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
This last week, the Scottish BPOC Writers Network hosted a talk on Performance and Resistance by Sumud Edinburgh, an organisation supporting a free Palestine. Sofia Nakou, a lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland and Dani… Read More »Performance and Resistance