Each image here has a story to tell, a history and a catalogue of memories.
Just like a familiar pair of old shoes, a favourite pen or the creak of the springs on a childhood bed. Time, use and repetition bury memories deep into the psyche, making them a part of you, your essence and your being.
In that way, these photographs live within me: my surroundings when I took them, the smells, the sounds and the emotions all shimmer and babble somewhere in the deep recesses of me.
The images grow stronger with time, not weaker. As I print them, study them, work on them and live with them they evolve and flourish within, sharing their experiences, possibly improving me as a person, but definitely improving me as a photographer.
Yet that moment, that instant in which a photograph is created – the shutter released – is so fleeting, instinctive and immediate. How is it that when the light floods through the lens so much happens, so much is captured, far beyond what is frozen on film and caught in time?
And how does the film, in that split second, capture the essence of me behind it as well as the scene before it?
These questions are constantly asked of me by my photographs and the journey involved in their creation – questions that I have lived with and tried to answer as this exhibition has grown within me, exploding to life here, on these walls.
And as the answers came I found they involved a pinch of magic and mysticism, hidden amongst the science and chemicals of analogue photography. I found they shone a light on my passion for my work, a love of the pace film forces upon me, the frustrations it provides and the boundaries I must work within.
My love and passion for these images – and everything that has brought them to life – transcends the personal history and memories I share with them. I hope these worlds created by that apparent magic and mysticism will shimmer and speak to you, the viewer, too.
April 8, 2018
March 19, 2018
April 27, 2017
February 27, 2017
December 1, 2016
November 11, 2016
November 7, 2016
November 5, 2016
September 25, 2016
August 11, 2016
July 1, 2016
April 9, 2016
March 20, 2016
February 15, 2016
November 11, 2015
November 10, 2015
October 20, 2015
November 16, 2014
September 13, 2014
September 12, 2014
September 2, 2014
August 16, 2014
August 15, 2014
July 1, 2014
June 2, 2014
April 25, 2014
April 20, 2014
April 19, 2014
April 15, 2014
April 8, 2014
December 4, 2013
November 28, 2013
November 17, 2013
November 16, 2013
November 15, 2013
March 17, 2013
February 22, 2013
February 5, 2013
December 1, 2012
June 22, 2012
June 9, 2012
June 8, 2012
June 6, 2012
June 5, 2012
June 4, 2012
June 3, 2012
June 2, 2012
June 1, 2012
February 15, 2012
February 13, 2012
January 25, 2012
January 20, 2012
January 19, 2012
January 17, 2012
January 2, 2012
October 7, 2011
September 3, 2011
August 19, 2011
October 16, 2010
October 15, 2010
September 15, 2010
August 22, 2010
August 3, 2010
June 29, 2010
March 28, 2010
December 8, 2009