Let’s set the scene. Circa 2002 or 2003, Glasgow. Classic iPods with the click-wheel, attached by a long cord to white earbuds, are all the rage. A record collection on a player the size of a fag packet. The future.… Read More »Casting Pods (Podcasts pt. 1)
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?
With 25th December less than a week away, I was thinking of my time in music and some of the Christmas music I’ve been involved in. To be fair, there isn’t much and there’s even less still available online but… Read More »Christmas Music, mostly
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
2012: The year of which the Mayans predicted destruction. The summer of the UEFA European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. The year… the year I joined Instagram. It Began With 30 days I had been in Poland 2 years, was… Read More »I’m Done With Instagram
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