About

I’m interested in pretty much most kinds of photography: from photo-journalism to fashion. I could list many of the photographers that I admire, but there’s far too many and I’d be bound to leave someone out. Then I’d have to come back here and keep editing and adding. And then they wouldn’t all fit. And then I’d have to redesign this page. And that’d mean the structure would have to change, and that would affect the grid and that’d mean the whole site would be under threat. So I won’t. What I can do is list the photographers whose work first made me stop and think ‘who was behind the camera, and what else have they seen?’.

The first photographer I remember having that affect on me was William Albert Allard, I’d seen an article in the National Geographic about the Amish and I was hooked. This was a new way of seeing, of showing the world in a way that was personal and unique. After that I was off and running, buying up old copies of NatGeo and Life, and delving into the worlds of other great photographers and photo agencies like Magnum and Black Star. But it wasn’t just photojournalists that caught my eye, other photographers, like the Irish born Bob Carlos Clarke, seemed to be working at the other end of the spectrum and seemed to inhabit an altogether different universe.

I don’t think you could find two more different photographers than William Albert Allard and Bob Carlos Clarke, but they’re as good a place as any to start from as any. So here’s that partial list that will probably end up being edited and added to time and again: Salgado, Parr, Goldin, Avedon, Penn, Horst, Bourke White, Frank, Ritts, Weston, Natchwey, Ellen Mark, Arnold, Abbas, Jean Roy, Leibovitz, McCullin, McCurry, Mapplethorpe,