Working on commissions where people are the subject, is the most privileged form of photography I know. Whether it be a headshot, wedding, travel project, or such, the fundamental requirement to a successful outcome is the relationship that is built in a single moment, or over the course or a period of time. Only then is it that camera becomes the portal through which that relationship is captured. My first recollections of an interest in photography go back to when I was knee-high to a grasshopper! I recall rummaging through a box of black and white photographs and negatives taken by my father, that I'd found in the attic of our house. With the negatives held up to the light I desperately tried to imagine how they would look as a print, where they were taken and who was in them. I would sit for hours dreamily lost in the 'present' of a past world. With the prints that I dug out of the box my fascination was with the shadows; the light; the 'lead-in' and compositional constructs that drew my eye into the image; the drama; the simplicity; pattern; geometry; balance; the curiosity of where, when and who all captured in a split second - telling their stories for ever!
