I have taken me a while to write my posts this year, I have not been able to think of much to say related to my photography or that which I want to share publicly, so I have been a bit quiet this year. I just realised that it has been 11 months since I last posted a life time for a blog. In the meantime, I have begun teaching photography again, at two different colleges in London. I am teaching a combined course in Illustrator and Photoshop at Morley College in South London and at Working Mens College in …

Exposing Neoliberalism on www.CreativeLondoners.com   I have just had an interview on my City of London social documentary/street photography project published on Creative Londoners, it is a new website writing articles/interviews about you guessed it, ‘Creative Londoners’. Oli Gudgeon started the website to write about this subject. He has already done a few interviews and I was really honoured to be asked, so without saying to much other than go check it out, and please return here to leave a comment when you have read it, as I would love to hear what you think. I got to talk about …

In January 2016, I started a social documentary project to photograph the City of London. This projects is ongoing and evolving over time. When I started I thought it would take me about a year to make a set of images and I would move onto something else. Part way into the project England voted for Brexit and I realised that I needed to keep going with this project. It has become apparent to me that the project has developed a life of its own and I will stop it the day that Brexit happens or Brexit is cancelled one …

What do social documentary photographers do? Or more importantly what do photographs do? If we accept that social documentary photographers are storytellers, then the photographs that we make are our stories and to make great photographs, we need to connect ambitions for our photographs with what we want to say as storytellers. It is really that simple. Yet we have a problem with photographs as there meaning is not always fixed, it is often dependent on context and the words that we use around the image. That is why newspapers don’t let images speak for themselves, as they are often …

About 15 months ago, I start photographing in the City of London, doing street photography documentary project of city workers. I aimed to be in the City at least twice a week, to spend my time walking the City. So far apart from a few weeks, I have managed to achieve this. It has been really really fascinating and I have learnt a lot about how the City functions, the patterns that exist within the City. I have learnt that certain buildings become hubs, around which specific industries exist. For example: the Lloyd’s of London building with its insurance market, has lots …

Sony FE28mm f2 lens. Small and capable lens. This post is about the Sony FE 28mm f2 lens. I have been using this lens for a while and it is really quite good on both the Sony a7S and a7RmkII as it is small enough so that it is nicely balanced on the front of the cameras. Optically it is a good performer. The thing that 28mm lens force you to do, is get closer to your subject, especially if you want objects to be a reasonable size within your frame. An advantage of a 28mm lens is that the depth …

I have been working towards a way of working that is part documentary and part street photography for a while now and I have come to the conclusion that Photography is Easy, Meaning is Difficult. I have an idea for what I want to say with my photographs and the making of images is easy especially with current digital cameras, but the making of meaning is much harder. By that I am referring to the kind of meaning that I want to have in my images, not the meaning that is attributed to the image because of their interpretation of …

This week, begins the first time in 9 years that I have not had a part-time position teaching photography. I have spent the last nine years teaching, working as the lead photography lecturer at Idea Store Learning, prior to that as course convenor for the NCFE accredited photography at Adult Education College Bexley (which is now called The Learning Centre Bexley) and some sessional work at Goldsmiths College, University of London and at Calat in Croydon. Teaching photography, also helped me research the work of other photographers, and this has greatly helped me in my own development as a photographer. When I started teaching, I had been doing fashion, beauty and …