Atmospheric, Moody, Fine Art and Documentary Photography.
A Very Warm Welcome to my website. The work here is my personal project which itself is about the Wye Valley, the Forest-of-Dean and my infrequent trips through Wales. It's about the life and objects all around us. My studio is located in the beautiful lower Wye Valley near Chepstow.
Philosophy.
Photography has many aspects, and this is my visualisation. No arty-farty psycho babble. No lying digital manipulations, No digital fakery, just my camera, my film, my chemistry, my alchemy, my honesty.
This is where I live and work, this is my life, my travel, my breath, my sight, my love, my hate, my despair, my glory.
Most of my work is monochrome. I love it. Its inexplicable, ineffable, tangible, something that is so expressive, pure and raw.
The Negative is the absolute essence of purity of image, the absolute truth. It is so physical and tangible. Real. I prefer keeping the use of Photoshop to an absolute minimum even when shooting digital. Photography should be about what is there, in the scene. The here, the now, constrained only by physical and chemical processes and not virtual unreality.
Behind most of the pictures there is a story and collectively they form an essay. The ruin, the ruined, the antique the antiquated, the dilapidated, the rusting, the abandoned, the discarded, the rejected. Rotting. My story is one of what we leave behind, stains on the landscape, only punctuated by momentary shifts of focus.
The picture for February 2011.
ABOVE: One of the most impressive pieces of ancient architecture anywhere in Wales, the Cistercian Abbey at Tintern. Here is a slight re-working of a previous photo.
THANK YOU for visiting, it's a privilege to be able to share my work with you. I hope you do like it. Please feel free to comment. Email me: wyephotography@live.com
