Background: I started serious photography in the early 1970s, when at university studying Physics. Self-taught, mainly through looking at photographs, I became adept in the darkroom. I made the transition to digital photography through a cheap lo-res camera, which opened my eyes to other ways of seeing. With better cameras, I became able to do things with a digital image that I was not able (or not patient enough) to do in the darkroom, such as colour and pixel-level manipulations.

For the most part, though, I have largely gone back to my roots, straight full-frame photography, presenting everyday, often mundane things that others might overlook. I am inviting the viewer to pay attention, to embrace some ambiguity, to find meaning. You weren’t there at the time, but now that you have seen this image, you partly were.