About me and my work
After retiring from a career in the law I embarked on a number of courses to explore and further my longstanding interest in photography. This has led me to undertake a degree course with the Open College of the Arts, on the final module of which I am currently working. This site reflects some of the projects, and wider interests, that I am presently pursuing for the final stages of my degree.
My practice is primarily concerned with exploring temporality in photographs, specifically the extent to which photographs, singly or in groups, can contain elements of the Past and hints of possible futures. To do so I am concentrating on landscape photography, photographing particular sites and places in and around my village, Stocksfield in Northumberland, over repeated visits at regular intervals. I am also rephotographing local scenes in old photos held in a community based archive, and drawn from a number of other sources.
This site is still very much a work in progress and not all of it has yet been fully constructed or populated yet. The section on Hauntology will be developed further as my research into how the concept might be applied to photography, and to what extent it might be argued that photography is an inherently "hauntological" medium, develop and progress.