​I have been a photographer for over 30 years, gaining a BA (Hons) and an MA in Photography whilst honing my skills and exploring my ideas. I consider myself a fine art photographer and I work with a variety of analogue and digital equipment- 35mm, medium and large format film cameras and black and white film, using the zone system to produce fine art prints; as well as digital SLRs and mobile phones.

 

My work is primarily concerned with the landscape.  My early photographic landscape work was in a documentary style and was influenced by the American ‘New Topographic’ photographers. The concern of this earlier work was to examine man’s intervention on the land as a reaction to the work of photographers like Ansel Adams, whose photography showed a view apparently untouched by man focusing instead on the beauty and power of nature. Over the years my work has become more personal and incorporates Guy De Bord’s concept of psychogeography.  Recent photographs are studies of my journey around a series of significant locations and aim to document the effect these surroundings have on me both psychologically and emotionally. I am interested in the relationship between emotions, memory and place. I revisit locations that I used to frequent when younger, as well as visiting new locations and explore the history of the space and examine my response to them. The equipment I use with these locations is directly linked to my emotional response to the location.

Michel Foucault’s concept of the ‘heterotopia’ underpins my current series of photographs exploring Spike Island (Inis Pic) in County Cork, Ireland. A liminal location outside of the typically regular spaces we inhabit.

Alongside my practical work I have also spent 18 years working in photography education, giving lectures and teaching wet-based and digital Photography at Level 2, 3 (A-Level and BTEC/UAL) and HE level.

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