ABOUT ME

For as long as I can remember images have spoken volumes to me and have been a fundamental source of my learning. At school I found it hard to concentrate on text, but give me an image and I would study it and get lost in every little detail. For me images fire my imagination yielding up their stories, often tempered by my own experiences. Like music, poetry and smells I find images so evocative, provoking a palette of feelings and thoughts.

My love of photography was born at a young age. I recall rummaging through a box of black and white photographs and negatives taken by my father, that I'd found in the attic of our house. With the negatives held up to the light I desperately tried to imagine how they would look as a print, where they were taken and who was in them. With the prints I dug out of the box my fascination was with the shadows; the light; the 'lead' that drew my eye into the image; the drama; the simplicity; pattern; geometry; balance; the curiosity of where, when and whom all captured in a split second - telling their stories for ever!

I love meeting people and hearing their stories.
I love watching people and wondering what their stories are, and everyone has one.
I love to travel and visit places getting to the heart of what matters, the local inhabitants in their culture, their values, their music, their artefacts.
I love to observe the emotion of occasions from weddings to fairs or family days out, capturing a record of the event.

My style is what it is although I tend to take a photojournalistic approach to many my images.

I adore taking photographs and sharing, or unpacking, the 'moment' with anyone who listens or looks. Images can be accepted at face value, but I was intrigued by a truth that 'a photographic image is true and false in equal measure' (introduction to The Genius of Photography - Gerry Badger).

That said, many images are just simply pleasing to the eye without, thankfully, any need for further analysis or interpretation.

Enjoy !

Andrew
Cambridge UK

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