About

My relationship with photography started with a disposable Fujifilm camera, often taken on a school or family trip, at least that is the start if I ignore being subjected to the typical family snapshot! For many years I sent off those single use cameras to be developed by post, awaiting with great anticipation their return and the disappointment at having only 1 or 2 from the 24 exposures be any good.

The break through for me was, having previously had no frame of reference or funds to really develop may skills with film, the purchase of my first digital camera. At that time only possible due to having saved extensively to travel to Tokyo, in 2002, and purchase the roughly mobile phone sized Casio only on sale in Japan. At 18 this was a revolutionary piece of technology allowing an endless trial and error learning curve with little to no processing cost or delay. From then on I photographed everything I could from bricks to sunsets and concerts.