Fleeting Reflections

When I got my first camera, an 35mm film camera, an Olympus Trip, I never thought to learn about photography from books, rather preferring to experiment with different films and techniques, expanding on the abstract way I had used paints as a child.

I struggled to find my own style for many years, something not unfamiliar to any photographer, experimenting with landscape and urban photography but never quite hitting the spot it seemed.

I will always remain grateful to Canary Wharf Group for their commission which gave me free access to all areas of their impressive docklands site. While working on it, I noticed patterns in the water. I took a few photos and was astounded at what I saw on the camera lcd, nothing like what I was looking at. It reminded me of Spirograph. It reminded me of the album cover of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ – an all time favourite album. It lit a spark.

Over the last ten years I have explored every inch of the water at Canary Wharf in all conditions and feel lucky to have found my ‘style’, something that connected my childhood interests, something that I found absorbing and accessible.