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This week a new laptop battery led me to a shop in the Cardiff streets of my student days. 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 […]
Ten years as a freelancer is a milestone worth marking. Employed members of staff might earn some small recognition from bosses and colleagues, but freelancers often just have to slap their own backs. So here is an honest, slightly indulgent account of the last decade. Ten years ago this month I was made redundant from […]
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 […]
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 […]
When we take a photograph there’s usually a dim awareness that the result might last forever. On the flipside we might immediately delete it, if we decide it is no good. If we’re happy enough with it, we hope the passing of time will look kindly on an image. Photographs tend to get more interesting […]
This is the second part of the Composed Images 2016 photo review. If you need a catch up of Part One, head over here. My second half of Summer 2016 was largely occupied by moving and settling into a new house and Cardiff neighbourhood. As well as getting a small canine creature. She has been extensively photographed. […]
Abandoned vehicles in random places can hold tantalising mystery. They hint at the unknowable magical tragedy of apocalypse – and who knows, the way modern politics is currently going, perhaps a near future apocalypse. They violently jar and clash against whatever environment they’re found in. Anywhere except scrapyards. Abandoned Vehicle In The Sea I happened across the […]
When autumn arrives in Cardiff, the parklands explode in a riot of colour. As a city rich in greenspace from its centre to its suburbs, most people get to enjoy a part of it. Cardiff Autumn Bute Park is a giant green lung of the city, playing a central role in any Cardiff Autumn. Wide […]
So you need to commission photography but what does a photographer need from you? Most photographers appreciate several key pieces of information from you as a commissioning client or individual customer. This information is usually contained in a photography ‘brief’. This is an outline of requirements which can be formal, tightly scheduled and detailed, or it can be fairly […]
Capturing photographs of Cardiff has occupied me for years, but recent weeks have seen the opening of a new chapter. At the start of July I moved into my ninth Cardiff property. Having lived in Cathays, Roath, Canton, Pontcanna and Heath from 1999 to 2006, my last six years have been spent in the Atlantic Wharf […]