Three decades of light and dark

I feel both proud and humbled—and more than a little nervous—as I share this selection of photographs from the past three decades.

These are not images that leap from the screen as you scroll through social media. Each one tells a story, but to see it, you have to invest something of your own: time.

I know the stories these photographs tell me, and the emotions they awaken in me. But you are invited to find your own stories. Your own emotions. Your own perspective.

My interest in photography began in the late 1980s. My first camera was a simple Konica point-and-shoot. Not long afterwards, I borrowed my father’s Canon AE-1. That camera is still in use today—now by my son.

The equipment evolved, but ever since those first rolls of film passed through my Konica, I have tried to unravel the secrets of this art form. To find my own style. My own eye and voice.

Looking back now at more than thirty years of photographs—negatives, slides and digital files in many different formats—I realised something: it had been there all along.

The eye. The voice.

Many of the photographs in this collection are from the late 1990s, when I was at my most active. But there are newer photographs as well, and I hope a clear and consistent visual language runs through them all.

Can you see it?