Photography

  • While I was in Japan we visited the island of Okunoshima. In the Second World War it was a top…

  • Naoshima is tiny idyllic island in the Seto Inland sea devoted to modern art. The opening of the Benesse modern art…

  • Kyoto is famous for its Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, many of which are UNESCO world heritage sites. There are…

  • After Malcesine, Limone sul Garda and Riva del Garda, I present to you Torbole. I went to Torbole just because…

  • So far I’ve shown you Malcesine and Limone sul Garda. I also took the boat to Riva del Garda at…

  • Now I’m heading over to Limone sul Garda on the other side of the lake. I didn’t spend much money…

  • Talking of 90s revival, I realised that the clothes I was wearing yesterday were something I could easily have been…

  • At the end of May I went on a last-minute trip to Italy by myself. I had given up my…

  • I went to Mont St Michel last week for the first time in years. It’s a medieval abbey on an…

  • Last week I took some promo shots of my friends Kirsty and Aaron’s band Actual Crimes. They recently became a…

  • About 6 weeks ago I went on a short break to Denmark and Sweden. It shows how busy I’ve been…

  • A few weeks ago, University College London held a light-themed street festival, with stalls run by the different university departments…

  • I refuse to apologise for that pun, you’ll just have to suffer. Here is a photo I took of myself…

  • Here’s some photos from a trip to Morocco I’ve dug out of the archives from when I first got a…

  • I used to do a lot of photography, but I don’t do half as much now, which is a bit…

  • I often like to get some fresh air in my lunch break by walking along the canal near my work.…

  • Here’s some more photos from Paris (again taken with a Pentax ME super and expired Poundland film with a strange…

  • Here’s some more film photos from the Jardin de Luxembourg in Paris. (Luxembourg is one of those words I always…

  • Here’s some more pictures of Paris, this time of the Canal Sainte-Martin, once again taken with an old Pentax ME…

  • While I was in Paris I visited the famous Père Lachaise cemetery, and took a lot of photos both monochrome…

  • I wandered up from near the Opera (where the hotel was) through back streets up to the top of the…

  • My flickr account has 370 albums on it, dating back to 2007, before I started this blog. A little while…

  • Recently I went to two exhibitions of British social photographers’ work of the 60s and 70s. Daniel Meadows at the…

  • On the way from Niederösterreich to Vorarlberg I stopped off alone in Salzburg along the way. I had to change trains…

  • While in Kirchberg am Wechsel I also got to go on a tour of Hermannshöhle with another teacher. It’s a…

  • Last Summer I spent a week working at the junior school in Kirchberg am Wechsel, a tiny mountain town on the…

  • Long time no see. I moved house a few weeks ago, and the internet connection has been a long-running (and…

  • We also went to the baroque St Nicholas’ church in Prague. I’m not at all religious (and it seems neither…

  • The pavements in the Old Town in Prague are all decorated with mosaics. Perhaps they’re not so great for the…

  • Puppetry is a big thing in the Czech Republic. As well as being the home of Jan Švankmajer and Jiří Trnka, there are…

  • We didn’t have a long time in Prague, so we didn’t get to sample that many places, but the ones…

  • After a week in Dresden at the end of August, I went to Prague for the weekend with my work…

  • When I was in Dresden, I bought a photography book by a local photographer. Günter Starke lived in Dresden Neustadt,…

  • I wrote before about going to a gig at Neu Gallery run by Greek artist Stefanos Rokos. I returned the…

  • Flickr have massively changed their website recently, and I took the chance to go through all my old photos and…

  • The other week I went for a walk along the eastern end of the Regent’s Canal with my dad. I…