![]() ![]() I brought out a short seven minutes long video to help reinforce the photographs. I have recently brought out my first book entitled "MCR." It’s a 99 page book which acts as a photographic insight into my adventures since moving to the city of Manchester. It’s a like flight or fight, you’ll either get it or you won’t. Either way your brain will acknowledge it. When you're photographing someone or something and literally something changes… it can be something big or something minute. My interpretation of the decisive moment is when something just happens. How would you describe the "decisive moment?" Create something that you love, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Whether it’s shooting or editing, just let your mind be free. However, to stay creative my best bit of advice is to not think about what you’re doing. I want my photographs to be purely influenced by myself rather than ripping off someone else’s work. Alternatively, I try to not look at or focus on anything that other photographers my age are doing. Smoking bud really has an impact on my work, especially when editing…It’s how I enter the psychedelic aspect of my brain. Other than that I’d love to photograph the Yakuza that culture fascinates me immensely. However, I’d love to go live with and document a tribe somewhere around the world. This is a tricky one? Because I don’t plan my photographs it’s hard to say what my dream photograph would be. I want to give photography something back just like they all have. I could name an endless list of photographers but these are the guys that have really inspired me to try and achieve something big and different with my photographs. David Bailey, William Klein, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Cartier Bresson, McCullin and Man Ray. ![]() It takes the mundane realities of life and shapes them into something far more interesting. Or my impression of what reality could be seen or perceived as. In a sense it acts as a tool for me to exemplify my perfect reality. The thing about photography is that it never ceases to surprise, amaze or fascinate me. So far it’s probably one of those photographs that has so much sentimental value to myself as a photographer. He took out his fake front tooth and literally revealed everything I knew about him through one single pose. When I shot that photograph of Mick I just asked him to give me one photograph that sums him up. He was also a football hooligan back in the day for Manchester United.Ĭharacter is everything when I photograph someone, it’s my main priority to capture and reveal an essence of that person’s character. ![]() He thinks he’s God and said he’s been abducted by aliens. He’s 60 but looks 40 and acts like he’s 20. However, if a gun was pushed to my head and I had to pick one it would most likely have to be the black and white portrait I shot of my uncle ‘Mad Mick’. This is such a hard question to answer because all my photographs are so different from each other, and therefore have different levels of importance and value to me. I’ve always wanted to create something a bit exotic, a bit weird, a bit mad. It’s an array of so many things which has led me to finding my style of photographing. For me personally however, the way I perceive and use photography purely depends on what mood I’m in or what I’m trying to accomplish through an image. Its limitless possibilities mean progression is endless. It is a tool for self-expression as it gives me the opportunity to control the world around me. It makes life seem like one ever expanding work of art. What can you say about photography as an "art or expression?" ![]()
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