An approach to making work. Documentary Style, Street Photography. I think this term ‘Documentary style street photography’ is rather good at describing how I think about my own approach to making images, for my current project on the streets of the City of London as a street photographer. In writing about Walker Evans, I happened across a piece written by J. David Sapir called Walker Evans and his’ Documentary Style’ a personal reading. I read it with interest as I had studied my MA in Photography and Urban Cultures in the Sociology department of Goldsmiths University, it resonated with me. …

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 …

I am probably going to be doing quite a few posts about this topic in the next few months and maybe even years. I have been since the beginning of the year working on a project to photograph the City of London. I discovered that Martin Parr, has been doing the same thing over the past few years, as photographer in residency for the city of London. He had an exhibition of the work at the Guildhall Art Gallery, earlier this year. The images where featured on the Guardian Newspaper website. When, I found out about the Martin Parr, City …

Marco del Pra’s Atterwasch story at atterwasch.net “atterwasch. is a documentary about the German village of Atterwasch which is under pressure to make way for a brown coal open-cast mine, despite the fact that the village exemplifies Germany’s acclaimed energy transition. This multimedia documentary focuses on the uncertainty Atterwasch’s residents were confronted with over a one-year period (2013-2014). You are free to determine the pace of the narrative yourself.”   The website that is atterwasch.net is a scrolling documentary presentation featuring recorded interviews and is very well done which is why I am featuring it here. I like how the design of the website …

Maida Hill Market Images   I was commissioned recently to make images of a new market called the Maida Hill Market on the corner of Harrow Road and Elgin Avenue, W9 London. It was a nice long day with me getting there when the market traders were busy setting up, allowing me to introduce myself and get familiar with the place. I stayed till 3:30, when the market closed making loads of images all day. By introducing myself in the morning, it allowed me to have the market traders work with me when I was making images, as they would say to …

Two Thousand and Fourteen, is an art project documenting 2014. This Project could be interesting. especially for a documentary inspired photographer, who is influenced by the news. PROJECT TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN IS HERE! CURRENTLY SEEKING CONTRIBUTORS Each day this year, from 1st January – 31st December, visual artists, illustrators and media professionals will be contributing to a new purpose built website. Each day a different visual practitioner will create a new piece of 2D work interpreting an event that has been broadcast in the news that particular day. The new work will be uploaded onto a dedicated website and …