About Me

In a small cottage on the Isle of Sheppey, close to the old Kings ferry Bridge, I had my very first experience of life through a lens. An uncle of mine had built his own telescope, not a metallic round tube, but a square wooden one. At the age of six or seven I wondered at the magic that took place inside that long wooden box.

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The very first thing I saw through the telescope was a few sheep and a couple of  sailing boat masts rising up from a small river hidden by the grassy meadow land. 

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Being able to bring the world a little nearer  and the view a little clearer, excited me so much that I still remember it vividly 'til this very day. 

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After years of longing for a camera with which to record people, and things that I found interesting, it wasn't until my twenties that I could afford to buy a proper one. However, my preferred subject matter had become people and life around me, rather than snaps for the family album. I was thought to be rather strange because I wanted to take pictures of people who were neither family members nor friends.

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Today I still love to photograph interesting people and local events. But, it's the street portraits that give me my biggest buzz; the interaction with complete strangers who, momentarily, enter then pass through my life never to be seen again.

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Apart from, in those wonderful digital images, where they will never grow old  and will remain forever.

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John