I was never very good with formal education. Most of the time I had other, more important things on my mind .. girls, music, and generally enjoying life. School was boring. The most inane and monotonous repetition of so-called facts with little discussion, and all delivered with as much passion as a party political broadcast. [...]

Preconceptions. Everyone has them and as often as not, they are as useless as they are useful. Personally I’ve always had something of a love/hate relationship with them due to growing up as a punk/goth and being on the wrong end of everyone elses. People would take one look at me, see my appearance, and [...]

As a dear friend once explained to me, life is about stories. Creating them, living them, breathing them. How we tell those stories is almost as important for a photographer as how we live them and and putting the two things together brings the stories to life and allows the viewer to ‘become’ part of [...]

I’m English. I think it’s probably true that we have some kind of obsession with ‘the war’ (it’s probably the only time we ever won anything apart from the world cup in ’66!) even though the view of it is somewhat rose-tinted. Both my mother and father were old enough to remember it and I [...]