I have been taking photographs almost as long as I can remember. My first camera was an old box Brownie. I might have been six or seven. I don’t think the camera worked, but I could look through its cloudy round eye and see blurry images, and I was hooked.

One birthday I was given a Kodak Instamatic and a few cartridges of film. The film was soon used up but I took pretend photographs anyway.

In my teens I graduated to my grandad’s 35mm Voigtlander, and when I was in my twenties, I bought a Nikon FM, a lovely camera. My photographs, unsurprisingly, were mostly of family and friends, sunsets and landscapes. Then I built myself a darkroom, and started developing my film and printing my images. I even won first prize in a local competition! That short-lived period of creativity was overtaken by children and career, and it was back to the family and travel photographs again.

In recent years, I have rediscovered my joy in photography, and am lucky enough have the time and space to try capturing not only what I see but what I think and feel. If I had to describe my approach to photography and what it means to me, I would say it is an act of contemplation, a pause in the endless ebb and flow of events and experience, an arrested moment, in which I give myself time to consider the ‘thing-ness’ of things and the formal and aesthetic as well as the emotional and symbolic dimensions of their presence in this world.

Of course, sometimes my photographs are just playful or celebratory or ironic, and sometimes they are a form of social commentary.

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