Ethos
Photography, for a lot of people is about capturing a moment in time and putting it in a frame. Capturing light, shadow, colour and tone and wrapping it all up in this little rectangle to summarise something that happened once.
I don’t see things as being quite that simple.
For me, photography is about showing people, places, and things not for what they are, but what they could be, what they want to be, or what they someday will be. It’s about looking at something, and then choosing to see it in a different way, a way that will make people re-think, re-consider and re-evaluate.
I picked up a camera for the first time when I was about 14, and immediately became fascinated by how I could change how something looked. Change how it felt. Change how it could be. Since then, every time I press the shutter, I look for something new, strange and confusing.
I don’t believe in pointing a camera at something that looks pretty or compositionally balanced and making a carbon copy. What’s the point? It’s already there in far more vivid reality than I can recreate it.
I believe that photography should take that existing thing, kick it in the face, batter the hell out of it with a sledgehammer, then step back and have a look at what it really is.
Replication is static, meaningless and insignificant.
Not for me thank you.
I don’t see things as being quite that simple.
For me, photography is about showing people, places, and things not for what they are, but what they could be, what they want to be, or what they someday will be. It’s about looking at something, and then choosing to see it in a different way, a way that will make people re-think, re-consider and re-evaluate.
I picked up a camera for the first time when I was about 14, and immediately became fascinated by how I could change how something looked. Change how it felt. Change how it could be. Since then, every time I press the shutter, I look for something new, strange and confusing.
I don’t believe in pointing a camera at something that looks pretty or compositionally balanced and making a carbon copy. What’s the point? It’s already there in far more vivid reality than I can recreate it.
I believe that photography should take that existing thing, kick it in the face, batter the hell out of it with a sledgehammer, then step back and have a look at what it really is.
Replication is static, meaningless and insignificant.
Not for me thank you.