About

Background

I've been a photographer since I was a kid but I often forget because I'm easily distracted and get interested in other things. I like making things. Images and physical things. I enjoy the slow process and physicality of painting and drawing. Film, alternative processes and old weird cameras are more fun than tapping my phone but I also like using computers and playing with digital images. I have a DSLR and Photoshop for when a pinhole camera would be inappropriate. When I make physical things I tend to use CAD, laser cutting and 3D printing. I don't have the patience for the kind of precision that computers deal with easily.

Alongside making I enjoy fixing things.

Now-ish

I've moved the blog from my old website. That site was mostly my photography portfolio and currently mostly broken. I'm still confused about what I should put where and why I need more than one website.

History / Things Done

Wimbledon School of Art — Wimbledon, 2009

Photography / Teaching

I am sometimes a photographer and used to be a photography teacher and mentor. As well as doing occasional commercial work, I have exhibited in group shows and also produced small editions of photographic books. I was a regular Associate Lecturer for the School of Theatre at Wimbledon College of Art teaching one or two days a week for over 10 years. This mainly involved working with BA level students on computer based design and visualisation as well as making short films and animations. Along with conceptual and design help, I taught Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, After Effects and 3D software.

Photofusion, Brixton — Photofusion, 2007

I also set up and ran Starting Digital Photography course and Street Photography workshops for Photofusion in London.

Group Exhibitions - Photography

Contemporary London Street Photography - as part of the London Festival of Photography - King's Cross Station, London, 1 June - 15 August 2012.
Onto the Streets - Photofusion, London (July 2006) touring to Thessaloniki, Greece (Dec. 2006), Dubrovnik and Rijeka, Croatia (Feb / Mar 2007), Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia (15-25 March 2007).
London Independent Photography - London (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011)
Snapping Little Britain - Orleans House Gallery, Richmond (March / April 2006)
Arrested Art - London (May and December 2002).

Onto the Streets PV — Onto the Streets opening, 2006 (Photo: Jawed Ashraf)

Books

My photography has featured in a small handful of books and magazines including one picture in Street Photography Now by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, published by Thames & Hudson.

I co-authored and designed a book on making simple mechanisms and automata. This was published in 1998, reprinted a number of times and still available: Cabaret Mechanical Movement. I was working on a follow-up book but I'm an excellent non-finisher.

DIY photo book — Small Book Big City, handmade book 2006

Television

I directed Machinations, a series of four short films for Channel 4 about making things move in entertaining ways. The series was first broadcast in 1995. more...

Video

The Other Movies page lists some of the videos I've made. I have also shot and edited a number of short drama, promotional and documentary videos. more...

Previously

I've been a freelance something since 1992. Before that I worked for Cabaret Mechanical Theatre mostly fixing things in Covent Garden and I'm still involved with the wonderful world of automata. Before CMT, I was a Software Engineer, which partly explains how I've also produced things like an iPhone app (before vibecoding made such things much easier).

I hated school and left as soon possible, progressing slowly from a good CSE in Technical Drawing to an MA in Screenwriting and Screen Research in 1996. I can't really explain it.

About this Site

This website is built on Eleventy ("a simpler static site generator") made even simpler by having Claude help me.

If you want to get in touch, here's the contact form.