I've been mucking about with photography for over three decades, starting in the traditional manner with a cheap Japanese SLR and a darkroom in the attic before moving on to careers in documentary film-making and travel-writing. Returning to my original photographic concupiscence, I recently graduated with a Distinction on the ground-breaking MA course in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication, where I specialised in photography using a simple Nokia mobile phone. In general I work with small cameras aimed predominantly at the consumer market, believing in the old cliché that it's the photographer that makes the picture, not the camera. Small and unobtrusive devices allow photographers a special intimacy with their subjects, creating in my opinion more honest and generally much better photographs. Have a look at my work and judge for yourselves. My main interest is capturing everyday life, especially life lived behind the former Iron Curtain, although I'll photograph anything if asked nicely. At the time of writing during the spring-summer of 2013 I'm in the early stages of a project to build a digital archive of snapshot and amateur photography taken in the Soviet Union during its final 50 years. Recently completing another project with financial assistance from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture I'm now in the production phase of a new one, Pavojinga Teritorija, which looks at the immense contribution to society made by the Jews of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas between the wars in the run-up to their slaughter at the hands of their neighbours during the early days of the Holocaust. The resulting photography will be used as the basis for a talk that will be taken to schools in and around the Kaunas area. As a way of helping fund this work I now also offer a range of unique photography walks and tours in Lithuania. Read all about them here.
I've been held at gunpoint twice and am available for work immediately. I hope you enjoy looking at my work as much as I do creating it.
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I'm an English documentary photographer and curator working on several projects in the former Soviet Union that include both the taking and collecting of photographs. My photographic practice focuses on the veiled peculiarities of everyday life and is becoming increasingly concerned with the minefield of Soviet-related history and its contemporary aftermath. My work features in books and magazines, has won competitions, receives funding from a number of sources and is regularly bought by private collectors.
