I have an unrelenting passion for capturing the soul of us Mortals. Cuba which is where most of my work is shot partly because it is the only time and place I have time out with my camera, and partly this is a place I have total empathy with the people. “The eyes are the mirror of the soul” and the camera has the power to empathise or to abuse the portrayal of these inner moments. The Art of my photography is, hopefully to capture that moment without damaging the purity of the microsecond; hence most of my work is on the Street up close and personal. 50mm lens and politely in your face.

Number one would just being able to access a darkroom.
Having knowledgeable people on hand makes it a very useful and creates an encouraging atmosphere.

The darkroom has made me much more critical of my work, the subtlety of detail and the never-ending problems with light, especially at the time of execution of the shot.

It has confirmed my belief that film is a very different medium to digital and film will always be here because it capture the image in such a different way due to it being a chemical reaction and process, the crispness of the image, the blackest of black and the purest of white, this all held within the one image, this without using a dark room one would find it hard to fully understand the potential depth of a composition that goes in to that image, “the oh so simple thing called taking a Photograph”. From this I have had a much greater appreciation of the stunning images one sees taken by some ore inspiring documentary photographers.

To sum up the Media Workshop, I have eventually learnt how to take a better photograph, even if I went over to, I dare say it! Digital!

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