Each and every camera and lens has had its quirks, unique foibles, frustrations and brilliance.

When I first started photography, way back in the early 2000s, I primarily learnt what I was doing using an old SLR camera with Ilford HP5 400 ISO film stock. This is a classic black and white film, used by countless millions. Back then it cost an almost unbelievable 50p per roll for 36 images. At least that’s what I remember. Good luck finding anything for 50p now! 400 ISO has a pleasing grain to it, and was considered ‘standard’ for most applications. Generally, 3200 was th

I was surprised by the detail and general accuracy it has generated…

I grew up in a post-industrial city; a city once home to over 1,000 trades and known as the workshop of the world. The Industrial Revolution was born on the same streets I would walk, and the modern world owes a lot of its existence to my hometown. But, by the 2000s, all that was long-gone. Globalisation had steadily syphoned off the heavy industries to cheaper countries. New technologies and sciences replaced the old, dirty production lines, and slowly the factories, worksho

A Challenger 2 Tank of the Queen's Royal Hussars deploys a smokescreen on Salisbury Plain On a particularly cold December morning, I...

When I took the above photograph, just before pressing the shutter I had a (not uncommon) moment of self-doubt, worried if what I was...

I took this photograph in 2013 in central London. And haven't thought about it much since. Until stumbling across it in a folder recently....

I spent the first half of 2024 working on a project about, and called, "The Coast With The Most" - a photo-series documenting life along...

I asked AI to write a blog, with images, about a typical documentary photographer.

If you respect your subject and treat people with dignity and empathy, then taking the picture isn’t a problem