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A new laptop battery led me to a shop in the Cardiff streets of my student days this week. While my machine was being tinkered with, I took a short wander. A stone’s throw away was the two bedroom flat above a shop I rented with a friend in my third year of university, twenty […]
My relationship with social media is wickedly complicated and constantly evolving and horribly tangled up with creative urges. I don’t really understand the relationship. A big part of me wants there not to be one. Sometimes I want to ignore it and not care at all. Maybe even delete everything and just get on with […]
The now UK-wide coronavirus 2021 lockdown feels a world away from last March. Governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England have all done it slightly differently, but after a journey of various changing restrictions over the last few months, we are now in the same place. Here in Wales we have been under “alert […]
Cardiff is nearing the end of its two-week firebreak lockdown imposed by the Welsh Government to slow the spread of coronavirus. It is due to be lifted on November 9th. On Monday morning I photographed some city centre shopping streets. Media outlets and picture editors tend to favour a slightly amplified image of complete desertion […]
Trees matter but we often take them for granted. They matter to us individually, collectively and as a planet. They pop up in cities as designed features of the street. They appear in our leafy suburbs and gardens, and in traditional habitats of woodlands and forests. Humans ponder trees almost as much as water, ponds, […]
Before coronavirus there was greater possibility. That can be applied to life in general and narrowly to working as a ‘new normal photographer’. Things were never exactly easy but you could try to generate leads yourself, be proactive, get out there. You’d have occasional hits and many more misses but things could work out, if […]
The first football through my lens in 2020 arrived through a grassroots football photography commission. The location was a sprawl of Cardiff council pitches and an old stomping ground of mine, Trelai Park. It brought back a few football playing memories. My memory bank of playing football is substantial. From primary school matches to kickabouts […]
Part one: 22/11/2019. The 2019 general election campaign is in full swing. The tyre rubber of the political party battle buses is being 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, one […]