Japan....

In 2009, I made a series of pictures based around Japan's apparent fascination with Western culture. I chose to focus on the countries youth, making portraits in Tokyo and Ota.

I'm looking at the project as a work in progress and I hope to travel to the country again to continue making portraits as well as pursuing a separate piece that I've been researching.

The work would not have been at all possible without the kind help of my brother Daniel and his girlfriend Mayu. They gave me a place to stay and offered invaluable assistance through providing much needed translation.

I've included a few examples.

(Apologies for the quality, they just don't look quite right)

parody....

For the last two years of University my photography was mostly concerned with the 'constructed' image. I won't dwell on the theoretical side of the work now but I have included a few examples from my final project entitled 'Parody'. For this piece I imitated iconic photographs, using aspects of the original compositions but basing the images around more contemporary themes.

Starting out.....

Spare time, something which was a luxury throughout my last year in University, has now become almost commonplace. In short, I have a lot of it.

This sudden glut of free time is part of the motive for starting this blog, jumping on the bandwagon so to speak. Currently I don't have a website or any other form of real web presence for my work and I feel this is as good a place as any from which to show past and present examples of the photographs I make. Furthermore I'm looking at this blog as a sort of helpful aid, in terms of laying down ideas and keeping them in perspective, something which I'm sure many would agree is challenge enough in itself.

Recently I have taken a great deal of pleasure in sifting through the blogs of others, reading what people have to say and looking at photographs. There are some real gems out there. I'm intending to try and update this on a fairly regular basis and maybe people will get some enjoyment out of looking at it. I hope so anyway.