about the images

I've been taking photographs for over 50 years now and, although my tastes, interests and skills have changed and developed over the years, the fascination of what Henri Cartier-Bresson called "the decisive moment" remains. He mainly took pictures of people whereas most of my work focuses upon other, less active or mobile subjects but, to me, there's something that's still unique and magical about the instant of the taking of the picture. The subject may appear static but it's rarely wholly unchanging so there remains a unique and decisive moment at which the shutter release is pressed. But how to rationalise and contextualise the work in other respects? This is something that I've never been able to do. The best I can say is "I saw this and found it interesting so I thought you might find it interesting too."

The great photographer Paul Strand put it better:"I don't have aesthetic objectives, I have aesthetic means at my disposal, which are necessary for me to be able to say what I want about the things that I see. And the thing I see is outside of myself - always. I'm not trying to describe an inner state of being."

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