Here are some of my favourite images together with the story of how I came to take them.
Backstories
A Longing for Distant Shores, 2015
It does seem I get inspired by bad weather. I just needed 50 seconds between squalls to get the long exposure shot, and I wasn’t getting them.
The Farnes, 2019
Going back through my pictures, I’ve been finding it far easier to identify interesting monochrome images to document rather than colour ones. Better? Or just different?
Late bar, Venice, 2008
The story behind the image. By daylight the scene is nothing to write home about. But at night, nearly midnight, all those extraneous elements and colours just disappeared, and the atmosphere of the Venetian night took over.
Chad! No! Manchester, 2012
“But it’s just a picture of a wall!” It’s also a picture of ambition moderated by pragmatism, of nostalgia, of seeing how things were, how things are now and how they got there.
Manchester Art Gallery, 2004
The story behind the image. As soon as I saw the negative emerge from the developer I knew I’d got something worthwhile.
Lower Gilmore Bank, Edinburgh, 2019
The story behind the image. It’s the sort of picture I’ve always longed to be able to make – technically and compositionally appealing.