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sour dough
Over the years I’ve spent hours trying to make the perfect sour dough loaf and I’ve tried lots of different methods of growing a starter, keeping it alive and then baking with it. I’ve gradually...
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3 great documentaries about photographers
I’m always interested in films about photographers: I love to see how people work and to learn about their process. I also enjoy the cross over between two mediums that I work in – photography and...
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saturday on the overground
At the weekend, the overland trains have a completely different atmosphere and are used in a totally different way. During the week, they shift 100,000s of commuters into the city from the suburbs and...
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Wim Wenders & Tokyo-Ga
Tokyo Ga is Wim Wender’s homage to his favourite film director, Ozu, who amongst over 40 films made the classic Tokyo Story. Ostensibly, it’s shot as a journey to Tokyo in search of the people and...
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Ptolemy Mann – Weaver
Ptolemy Mann is an extremely skilled weaver, artist and colour consultant and she makes both pieces of cloth and woven art. She trained at the Royal College of Art and has since exhibited widely as...
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London & Riyadh, two cities, two recces…a world apart
It’s been one of those schizophrenic weeks that working in documentary and commercials occasionally throw up. I started the week with a recce for a commercial we’re to shoot in London later on in May:...
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Urban Landscapes – Saudi Arabia
Our trip has taken us to several cities and locations around the Kingdom and wherever we’ve been there seems to be a boom in property building: from the massive projects of Riyadh, often several city...
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Robin Maddock – photographs that matter?
Robin Maddock is an English photographer, based in London and San Francisco and he describes himself as a “social documentary photography … for now”. He’s published two books – Our Kids Are Going to...
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Jeddah – finding the right shot.
While we were working our way through the back streets of the old quarter of Jeddah, shooting video for a TV documentary on Arabia, I saw the strong afternoon light catching this bicycle outside a...
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King Khalid Mosque – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
One afternoon last week, we spent a pleasurable few hours shooting some classes at this grand mosque in Riyadh. We had asked to shoot some video for our documentary series, The Arabs – A People’s...
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Brian Griffin and the best photography book in the world
The other day I picked up a signed first edition of what’s been called “the best photography book in the world”, for £15. “Work” by Brian Griffin, published in 1988, was named the best photo book in...
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Black & White Landscapes
We managed a brief trip to the Norfolk coast this weekend and I was able to get out for a couple of walks with the camera. In the late afternoon I walked out across the sandy mudflats, almost to the...
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underground festivals
I don’t normally take pictures on the London Underground: I know that I’d hate it if someone stuck a lens in my face in the already crowded and busy platforms or trains. But the other day, as I was...
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big batch of bread
I’m slightly addicted to baking bread in a- grow my own sour dough starter, build my own woodfired bread over, drive 2 hours to buy great flour and bake several times a week - kind of way…. so here...
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The Overground in colour.
It’s been a while since I posted some train travel pics: summer’s been quite busy and I’ve been away a lot and not scooting around London by train so much. Yesterday we travelled from South London...
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Along the sea wall – pt 1
This year was the 60th anniversary of the great flood of 1953 that inundated large parts of the East Anglian Coast and the Thames Estuary, killing 307 people. As part of the sea defences against a...
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Along the sea wall – pt 2
The rest of the shots from my evening walks along the sea wall between Heacham and Hunstanton in Norfolk. Plus a couple of others that snuck in from walks between Blakeney and Wells. Shot on either...
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Kumbh Mela
Earlier this year I was asked to make a film about a group of American pilgrims traveling to the Hindu festival of the Kumbh Mela which takes place every twelve years on the banks of the Ganges at...
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The site of the Kumbh Mela
It’s a truly remarkable feat of engineering and civic planning: during the couple of months between the flood waters of the Ganges and Jumna receding and the auspicious month for the festival, the...
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