Diana, the wife of photographer Elliot Erwitt said of photojournalists “they come alive when someone interesting comes along” I feel like that, I find people and how the live totally fascinating
Photo-Stories and Talks
Talk 1: Urban Street Photography
Street Photography and Beyond The Talk I begin this talk by describing my early career as a press photographer on both local and Fleet Street newspapers in the 1970s/80s, where I would often find myself
Colin Wood The Stonemason
Colin Wood the stonemason has lived and worked in Caistor , Lincolnshire all his life. As did his father and his father before him. Three generations have occupied the same 12 feet square room since
Streets in The Sky 2015
Park Hill Streets in The Sky was opened in 1961, the year I was born and was designed to home 3000 people in the 1000 social housing flats. Over the years manufacturing industries who needed
Streets in the Sky 2020
I returned to Sheffield’s Park Hill ‘Street in the Sky’ a few times after the first visit and then in 2020, just before the Corona Virus took hold I spent the day there and met
Gentrification : Freeman Street
Post World War the UK needed to build many new homes and place workers where manufacturing needed them. By the late 60s/70s they started to build upwards and created high rise habitats. In Grimsby, five
Talk 2: Creative Street Photography
Getting Creative with Street Photography The Talk I find the experience of coincidence too powerful to resist reacting to. For 40 years I have experimented with post production techniques, for example when working as a