Grain and Grey
A studio sitting on film, one roll, twelve frames. Hard light from a single window, a borrowed camera in her hands and the discipline of not moving for a slow shutter. Medium format makes you count. Every frame is a…
Black and White (05)
Frames that only made sense once the colour was gone.
Held in the Air
An acrobat, a rope and the half second at the top of the swing when nothing moves. The company asked for the show; I asked for the rehearsal, where the light is worse and the concentration is better. Shot against…
Smoke, Slowly
Smoke is the most patient subject I know and the least cooperative. It goes where the air in the room goes, and the air in the room goes where you breathe. So I stopped breathing, for a second at a…
The Band, 1911
Twenty musicians, their instruments and one dog, arranged by a photographer who knew exactly where every face should go. The print cost less than a coffee and has been on my desk since. Nobody at the market knew who they…
First Cast
A lake in February, a fisherman who has been there since five and mist that took the far shore away. The photographs are almost grey on purpose. The exposure sits a stop over what the meter wants. Mist is white;…
Stay in the frame
New work, field notes and the occasional dispatch from wherever the light is good.