I’m sorry I’ve been quiet of late. Truth is, I’d hoped to take off some time for a long while now, and this year I’m taking a bit more time out of my photography life, to have a break.

I haven’t been posting much on the blog, and mostly that is because I’m recharging by doing other things that are non photography related.

Anyway, I stumbled upon a keynote presentation today that I gave to the Royal Photographic Society back in February 2025 and thought I would share.

I think my work got very graphic and minimal around 2023. I would say I’ve relaxed off this approach a bit at the moment. Not through any conscious decision. I always just follow wherever my art takes me. But I am still very proud of this work and when you review it with the work made in 2015 and then during my first visit in 2009, you can see that I was on a path to simplifying what I do.

I cannot really explain or describe it. I’ve never been that interested in photography as some kind of ‘record of reality’. It is what we wish to make of it, and I am more interested in the interpretive side of things.

Often our previous work shows signs of where we’re going. I think these signs are much easier to see when we are looking back at the audit trail.

I will be in South America for all of May. Back home in June. Maybe I might post something whilst on my travels. We will see. Until then, if you are ever feeling tired, or saturated with your photography, sometimes the best thing to do is take a break and go and do something else. You might just be needing to step away for a while, before reconvening with new enthusiasm.