Kia ora tatou: The books are on the water. Out There South will be here in Aotearoa in a couple of weeks. Chris Morton and I are going to have a launch in Auckland on August 26, at his place on the North Shore. You are ALL invited! So, if you have time, do come [...]

Kia ora tatou: Those of you who have done my workshops know that I often ask you to do some..ummm..gentle visualisation exercises, such as the Phone booth one. I still meet students who remind me that I put them in a phone booth for an hour and asked them to make 60 different photographs. usually [...]

Kia ora tatou: I am happy to admit it: I am anal about the technical quality of my landscape photographs. Come to think of it, I am anal about the technical quality in all of my photographs. The end result of what is probably an unnatural preoccupation with technical quality has led to a restless [...]

Kia ora tatou: 11,000 photographs, 6724 kilometres, 17 days, eight guys. And now it is done. Last  April Chris Morton from Auckland and I, along with six other guys, set out on a big adventure. We drove some of the fiercest four-wheel drive tracks in the South Island, got lost, got stuck, and saw places [...]

Kia ora tatou: Of late I have begun to think about format and its significance again. One format which has always fascinated me is the panorama and its practice. It is a topic I discuss at the Winterlight Workshops, one which is, of course, devoted to the question of landscape photography. Contrary to popular opinion, [...]