Composed Images
This week sees the release of my Cardiff street photography book, Canton and Pontcanna, published by The History Press. The publisher tells me it is (or will be) available to buy from Octavo’s in Cardiff Bay, Griffin Books in Penarth, and Amazon in the Internet. Canton and Pontcanna – Times of Day It all came […]
Cardiff City return to the Premier League this weekend after securing promotion with a second place finish in the Sky Bet Championship last term. The primary objective this time around, just like their last time in the top flight during the 2013/14 season, will be to stay up. Last time they failed and were some […]
My attention was recently drawn away from peripheral points of Cardiff’s skyline and towards the more obvious ones. The latest and arguably most glaring addition to Cardiff’s ever-changing city centre skyline is yet another tower of student accommodation. A new 24-storey effort on Charles Street will eventually be home for 463 students, while even taller […]
The tower of St Augustine’s Church in Penarth interrupts the skyline overlooking Cardiff Bay and can be seen for miles around. A small but striking blip on the horizon, the Gothic 19th Century tower quietly sneaks into many images captured in the near vicinity. From Garth Mountain to the north – another enchanting point on the […]
I hate this time of year. Early hayfever memories include seeing a school exam paper being splashed by two rogue drips from my nose. Aged 15, on the day England beat Holland 4-1 in Euro 96 I had one of about three experimental acupuncture treatments. My face briefly resembled a pin-cushion, an impressive array of […]
I photographed a bunch of abandoned farm buildings last weekend. To me they were irresistible and enchanting: crumbly, dusty, dishevelled, mysterious, dangerous. The way light plays in through a doorway or pours through a shattered roof can be mesmerising. Chaotic jagged angles make for unusual compositions. Scenes like this are great settings for a film […]
Wembley Woe for Tottenham
A couple of weeks ago I took another late season trip to London to photograph a Tottenham match for Prime Media Images. Twelve months ago, my April trip was something of a pilgrimage to photograph a first and last match at White Hart Lane, the football ground of Tottenham Hotspur I had visited on countless […]
With a creative process of any size come a host of similar problems. If you’re working with a large volume of material that you’re attempting to structure in a coherent, clever, engaging or entertaining way, you can grow sick of it. I recently completed a large body of work – the specifics of which I […]
Brexit is the defining political word of modern day Britain. It has been for a couple of years now, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. The EU referendum in June 2016 narrowly decided that Britain should leave the European Union. It caused societal upset and political upheaval which continues unabated. It appears […]
Royal family photos have global appeal. In January 2018 it was announced that Prince Harry and his future wife, Meghan Markle, would visit Cardiff. The place was quickly abuzz with excitement. Princess Catherine of Cambridge had visited a charity in Caerphilly around 12 months earlier, but with the big wedding a handful of months away, […]