On photographing strangers, who, through random acts of communication, cease to be strangers and become people that I have met.

Remember film? This photograph is called “Lone walker returning from a day at the lake”. I made it a very long time ago with my first Nikon camera on Agfa CT18 slide film. Both, the camera and the film, have long gone out of production. And now film is cool again.

Analysing the traffic logs for my website and blog I have noticed that one of the search terms that people use to come to my site is “mature nudes”. The term mature is in itself problematic. Whilst there is nothing wrong with it per se, it becomes laden with pre-conceptions and is almost derogatory when used as in “mature women” because it implies that the passing of time erodes beauty and desirability. I believe that photography has a duty to examine such conflicts in society.

Lately, I have found myself photographing the sky frequently. I do not create these photographs deliberately, they happen involuntarily and are therefore automatic in the surrealist meaning of the word.

About an interview with the great Helmut Newton, Charles’ Camilla, the torment of Gordon Brown, Jean Alexander’s “Auntie” and the photographer’s suffering.

Two days ago I received an e-mail message from a client, whom I had photographed earlier that day. Peter wrote “Thank you for a unique and enjoyable experience”.

The next day, after I had supplied the proofs to my client, he wrote “Thanks for … the proofs.  So quick – I am impressed. My wife’s immediate comment;  ‘they are very beautiful.’  And she wouldn’t say that if she didn’t mean it I assure you.”

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Philosophy of Art: An essay about realism in photography.

The digital image only exists in the form of electromagnetism and only as a different form of itself and therefore does not exist.

It has been argued that all photography represents reality. After all, photography is only the reflected light captured in the fraction of a moment. The camera never lies. But is this really true? And if it is true, where is the art in it? Photographs are not created in an instant. They are the result [...]