“My painting is almost entirely autobiographical – it tells you where I am at any given point in time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in. In this present time it is very difficult to paint for other people – to paint beyond your own ends and point directions as painters [...]
Kia ora tatou: Time for a Sermon on the Mount. On Monday night I had the singular honour of being asked to judge the Canterbury Roundup, an interclub battle for projected Images, along with Ian Smith (ex-Photo Access) and Linda Lee, a Fine Art photography teacher from Christchurch. Nice to see clubs looking for input [...]
Kia ora tatou: I always intended this blog to be a community. We grow as photographers when we debate and discuss. As Robert Adams said, “Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too – photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny but [...]
When you come to my fights and I’m under the lights and you see that my footwork is false don’t count me out, at the start of the bout I’m just doing the secondary waltz doing the secondary waltz – Mark Knopfler (from the Kill to get Crimson album) I blame Mark Knopfler. It is [...]
