Kia ora tatou: I would like to talk about another way of making photographs. For a few years I taught Fine Art photography. It kind of fitted in with my working method and approach to picture-making. I had moved from being an opportunistic photographer happy to grab whatever popped up in front of his lens [...]

Kia ora tatou ( Hi everybody): There are two terms frequently used in the Art world, representation and interpretation. A question in the last post leads me to think this is something worth talking about. When we first start to photograph, one of the joys is in the fact that we can freeze time, we [...]

Kai ora tatou: Playing and development go hand in hand. We all know that. We just have to watch a small child playing to see the importance fo play. As they make stuff in the sandpit, or organise tea parties for their dolls or fiddle with that Lego set, there is a lot of learning [...]

Kia ora tatou: With all this discussion on colour, I thought it was time to call in the big guns, in this case my friend and colleague Mark Soltero. Mark is a painter, and therefore has a perspective on colour that I have only begun to acquire (largely because of him-many thanks, Mark!). So I [...]