![]() ![]() I think I am just a regular Joe going out and trying to do something nice and take nice photos of nice people in nice places. I’m usually quite busy and forget to think about this but when I do I’m outta there! It’s addictive. If I stop for one second and think about all the incredible things in the world happening this very second I usually just grab my camera and run out the door. I take 10x the photos I did before because it just calls to me to use it. I scraped and saved for the Leica Q and it has honestly changed my life. I like to shoot wide open for everything and APS sensors just don’t have the same quality and I always felt torn that I wasn’t getting the best shot I could in that moment. I used to use an X100 and I liked it but I always missed the feeling of full frame from my work cameras. Tell us a bit about the gear that you use and how you feel it helps you achieve your creative vision I like to think of myself as more of a humanity documentary photographer. However I actually don’t like that term because I associate it more with just going out and shooting random crap in the streets for really no reason. I used to always carry a camera and just shoot anything I like and before I knew it I’m a ‘street photographer’. What made you want to get into your genre? I think anything past that emotion is overdone and anything under it wouldn’t do that moment justice. ![]() I then just adjust the image how I see fit to portray the emotion I felt in that scene. I shoot with the viewfinder set to B&W because I find it easier to see tone and light so it’s interesting to see the images in colour on the big screen. I like to come home from my walk and get a drink and sit at my computer and see what I’ve found. Want to walk us through your processing techniques? I never really work a scene because that moment has passed the second after I press the shutter. My brain says take a photo and my body does it. I will just see something, a character, a colour, a shape, I don’t like to limit myself. I’m not a photographer that finds a spot and stays there, I always keep moving, I don’t look for a photo, I let it find me. What’s typically going through your mind when you create images? Tell us about your processes both mentally and mechanically? Documenting real life and real moments is all that’s important to me and I’m never happier than when I’ve captured something real and can communicate that emotive moment to someone else through a photograph. I started out wanting to create, but I’m miserable when I’m doing jobs like that. This question has been the big turning point in my recent life really. I wasn’t very good with school and learning so having direction and a goal to work towards when I was younger and having something you know you are good pretty much saved my life.ĭo you feel you’re more of a creator or a documenter? Why? Why is photography and shooting so important to you? Jamie Hawkesworth for colour and emotion, William Eggleston for being able to notice a moment and Alex Webb for composition. What photographers are your biggest influences? I really enjoyed it and got a rush from the results and I just never stopped. At school I wanted to paint photos realistically but I was crap, so I figured I could just take photos instead. I have a Leica Q and like to take my camera out when I walk my dog every day. I think this helps me cope with life, making the ordinary extraordinary. I want to turn the mundane into something beautiful. So in my own time I just love to photograph humanity. For work I shoot commercial and fashion photography and really, it is so fucking boring. ![]()
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