Composed Images
The first football through my lens in 2020 arrived in the form of a grassroots football photography commission. Its location was a sprawl of Cardiff council pitches and an old stomping ground of mine, Trelai Park. A few football playing memories came flying back. My memory bank of playing football is substantial. From primary school […]
One: 22/11/2019. The 2019 general election campaign is in full swing. The tyre rubber of the political party battle buses is being heavily worn as leaders head around the UK. Glossy manifestos have been printed, lots of different things are being ‘launched’, televised debates between leaders are hot topics of conversation. The weeks and days […]
October is usually the best month of the year for autumn photography but this October of 2019 has been a wash-out of almost endless rain. Merciful pockets of fine autumn weather have rarely extended to more than a couple of days. Rain rain rain The rain has hammered down, hard and insistent. Met Office weather warnings […]
The Brexit Party conference tour stopped in Newport on Saturday. Occasionally you find yourself photographing events which seem to firmly timestamp a moment, to reflect something much wider. Which isn’t to claim the images are unique or remarkable in the widest sense. This was one of several similar Brexit Party conference dates across Britain, merely […]
At a time when most high streets appear boringly samey, dominated by shouty big brand names, I find myself increasingly drawn to traditional indoor markets. Indoor markets offer a portal into an era of traditional retail: butchers, bakers, grocers, cobblers, record stores. And of beguiling old brickabrack: ornaments, grandfather clocks, vinyl, framed pictures and posters. […]
St Fagans National Museum of History is a true treasure of Wales and Britain. It was fantastic to see it named Art Fund Museum of the Year last week, beating off four other contenders from around the UK to win the prestigious £100,000 prize. St Fagans National Museum of History St Fagans allows visitors to […]
Our first trip away as a family of four took us to North Devon in mid-June. And it turned out to be a week of almost constant rain. We stayed in one of a complex of several farmhouses near Ilfracombe. The farm had a few large fields where we could exercise the dog, but there […]
Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh died yesterday, aged 49, five days after suffering a cardiac arrest. He has dominated my thoughts over the last 24 hours – along with football, life and death. Some of those thoughts… If you follow football for most of your life, a false closeness can develop with football people. You […]
“Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” The crowd starts chanting, a low rumble of voices at first. Slowly it builds until everyone is on the same page. “Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” They are calling for the release of the first roll of cheese from the top of Cooper’s Hill. Or perhaps simply expressing their love of cheese. It doesn’t […]
Gloucester was a gateway city for me, the first city I came to know well. Gloucester: ‘Glarster’ if you’re local, perhaps ‘Glowsester’ if you’re American, or ‘Gloster’ to anyone else. It was the closest city to where I grew up in the Forest of Dean. We often made the half hour journey for shopping and […]