Assessing your photographic ‘maturity’

Or why you should not always carry a camera with you

How being an observant urban wanderer can help with your street photography

Or how not to worry that everything has been photographed before

TIME Magazine’s AI cover reveals how power defines architecture today, elevating scale over stewardship and excluding humans

How might David Bowie have used AI to create his art?

A brilliantly human photographer, he celebrated the overlooked, finding beauty in cheese sandwiches at a church fete or people queuing for ice cream at the beach – all while poking fun at Britishness

Ten principles for navigating our technological future

How to prepare for luck as a street photographer

It’s been a while but following on from this one, here’s another stream of photographic thoughts and feelings.

With the release of the new Frankenstein movie, directed by Guillermo del Toro, now seems a good time to remind ourselves of the origins…

The original version of this essay was published on my photography blog in 2016. I am republishing it here to include some additional…

Some photographers, either consciously or otherwise, have a very definite style. On seeing one of their images you instinctively know it is by that photographer even if their name is not attributed to the image. The photographer and blogger Ming Thein has recently written an excellent post on defining style and finding your own where he identifies the elements of style that photographers can tune to make something distinctive to themselves.

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

Whilst having choices might generally be thought of as a good thing there are times when this can work against you. Whether it be choosing which type of breakfast cereal you want, which colour of paint you should use on your living room wall or which variety of beer you want the barman to pour at your local, on occasions you can be overwhelmed by the options and either not choose anything or just stick with what you know works.