An image captures a moment in time. Yet it also captures a moment beyond time and outside of time. A snapshot suspended in time, for all time. An image is timeless.

My photography is varied. It’s eclectic, like me. I don’t have a preferred genre: I equally enjoy taking pictures of landscapes as I do portraits of people. I am though particularly drawn towards photographing the abstract and the unusual, the quirky and the unique. I find beauty in ruin and destruction and desolation, in the banal and the mundane, in the ordinary and the extraordinary. To me there is something wonderful and magical in things that are run down, dilapidated and neglected, and in things that are unconventional, that stand out against their backdrop, that are set apart. These are the things that catch my eye. I am especially keen on photographing details, focusing in on features of buildings and nature. I like to look at things from a different perspective, to frame what is often taken for granted, missed or overlooked. As John Berger said “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.” I want to bring awareness and attention to things we may never have seen, we may never have truly looked at, or that we may be so familiar with we fail to notice anymore. Looking at things from another angle, close up, or in a different context, enables us to see afresh and anew. It engages the childlike spirit of curiosity and exploration and for me, photography is exactly that: playful, experimental and joyous. It is also my intention in the pictures I take, to convey the essence of people and place: to capture mood and atmosphere, to put across a real lived sense of people’s emotions and the inherent essence of a place.