It can be really difficult to get out to take photographs in the wintertime. The days are short, the nights are long and there’s not much light. Here in North Yorkshire, where I live, the moors are wild and windy and bloody freezing in winter. Stripping down to a...
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison One of my photography tutors used to say that you shouldn’t worry too much about equipment when you’re getting started with photography, because you won’t find the camera that works...
Perhaps the last time I wrote a short story was GCSE English, a looooooong time ago. And, as is my nature, I agonised over it. For three long weeks I wrote excessively descriptive passages, and then balled them up and chucked them into the bin. It was torturous and I...
Have you ever noticed that, when you share your viewpoint (or your creative work) one negative comment can completely throw you off balance? Even if the response is generally very positive, that one negative comment sticks in your head and you find yourself...
You see twenty patients a week. How do you deal with taking in so much pain from strangers? I asked Anthony one night, over the phone as I lay on a pull-out bed in a friend’s living room in Montreal. The post show signing had taken ages and I was exhausted but I...
As a new artist, there are a few pieces of advice that you hear repeated to the point that they become banal and almost something to rebel against. “Do what you love” “Create every day” “Show up and do your work” “You need to work for 10,000 hours...
