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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 England v Wales friendly international was a game I applied to photograph without much hope. Places are strictly limited in the covid world, and my application had been unsuccessful for the last Wales home game. It all feels like a lottery, and sometimes it literally is. England v Wales – the background It wasn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]