I guess we are always living through and being a part of history, but there are certain events that you might think, I wish I had been there. It was the New Year of 1989, the whole world had been watching the news bulletins coming out of Germany. They had…

Glass negatives from the studio of Monsieur Louis of London. In 1826 Nicéphore Niépce produced the first ever and earliest known surviving permanent photographic image called: ‘View from the window at Le Gras’. A few years later Niépce partnered with Louis Daguerre to improve the process and after Niépce death…

“IF YOU’VE GOT FRIENDS, YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY.” A recent study conducted by Mencap found that one in three young people with a learning disability spent less than an hour outside their home on a typical Saturday. Respondents to the survey listed fears including bullying, being laughed at…

Over the years of travelling around the country for work, I had noticed that a lot of factories were being closed down and being replaced by shopping centres or housing estates. I wondered what all the factory workers went on to do. …

THE MENNONITES OF PARAGUAY. A cloud of dust hid the the bus as it disappeared off into the distance. We looked to our right and then to our left. Up a slight incline about a quarter mile off the road to the left, lay a farm owned by a farming family. To the right…

A few years ago our good friend Carolina Giammetta wrote and directed a short film called ‘I Don’t Care’.

I Don’t Care…….. That sometimes you don’t make sense! That you make a concentrating noise……… That you complain when I brush your hair! That I’m constantly unpacking bags you’ve packed for no reason. That you repeat yourself. That you have Down syndrome! I Do Care…….. That you do your best…

Every year at the time of the Summer and Winter Solstice, Stonehenge ‘opens its doors’ to the general public, who are then allowed to walk within the circle to touch and honour the stones. The ‘general public’ in this place and at this time, is a wonderfully eclectic, eccentric bunch…

I love Vermeer. Who doesn’t love Vermeer? About ten years ago I took some portraits of the actor Sarah Gordy based around a selection of Johannes Vermeer’s more famous paintings. Of course I wasn’t inventing the wheel, many people had and have since emulated his work in a myriad of…