Occupation: Photographer Birth: 1953
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intens….
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man….
We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather tha….
There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours tho….
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the….
The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken..
As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another..
I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more myst….
Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time..
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where….
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities..
We all have choices and must make them for ourselves..
I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever ….
For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attem….
I try not to make conscious decisions about what I am looking for. I don't make elaborate preparations before I go to a location. Essentially I walk,….
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's lef….
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with trem….
If I had to give advice to other photographers, I would first suggest quickly getting over the camera equipment questions. In my humble opinion, the ….
I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics ….
One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision..
I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities..