In this reflective and deeply personal essay, David A. revisits a lifetime behind the camera to ask a deceptively simple question: why do we take photographs today? From childhood wonder with a Kodak Brownie to mobile phones and creative pauses, he explores memory, motivation, and what truly keeps the photographic impulse alive.
22 years separate the two photographs of cameras in front of a mountain, although the journey really began 63 years earlier. Sometimes I think I was born with a camera in one hand and a pencil in the other. My first eureka moment was on top of a mountain at the age of 13 when […]
Fuji gets so much right and, in some ways, so much better than others. Fuji cameras just “are”, and I will not move on beyond X-Pro3 because that camera and my older bodies will give me A2 or A1 prints at a push which is all I can ask for.
I have visited La Alhambra many times over the past 20 years as a tourist, artist, photographer, photo tour guide, wedding photographer, concert goer and just as a lover of the palace.
This set of photographs is a personal “interpretation” based on my very first visit and memories, which were a huge pool of golden light bathing the entire place.
When photography first appeared, statements were made that ‘painting was dead’ and there would only be photography. Well, as we know, painting lived lives. If it had not survived, many artists from Monet to Picasso and onwards would possibly have never put paint to canvas or board, and they were photographed and used photography. When […]
I remember vividly the day my photography tutor gave me a Pentax Spotmatic to take some photographs for a project. It was like being given new eyes, after box brownie, Instamatic and Salina Paulette, it was a revelation that I could actually see what I was photographing in real time and what seemed like 3D […]
Like many photographers ‘of a generation’, when I began using cameras, they used 120, 5×4 and 35mm. Over my photographic exploration, I used cameras from all the usual suspects and all the formats. I always had a liking for rangefinder cameras, and the Fuji 6×4.5, 6×7, and 6×9 cameras were wonderful. In 1999 I bought […]
From mystic alchemic art to film, from film to digital, and then to mobile phones. What’s next in this continuous process of democratising Photography?