Hackney Empire - Transition c Artwork - Limited Edition of 80

I picked up my first camera in 1996 on a long trip to New Zealand. It was a cheap Yashica and took over a thousand pictures. I was hooked. Later I got my first SLR, a Pentax MZ and taught myself photography. In 2002 I studied photography at metropolitan University which changed my photography completely. I went from doing landscape photography to photographing people both in a reportage form and within the studio environment. My end of year project was on head injury using both medium and large formats. I am very interested in digital image manipulation. My first project started as a way of turning people in to superheroes of their own design. The project was called BASH, Be A SuperHero. This turned in to what is on the site as reflections. Later I started project I called the Dynamic Zoo. Influenced by someone’s drawing art I saw being sold by one of the cars at a boot sale I took some of my normal landscape and graffiti picture from around the world and added some graffiti like colour to the pictures. I have done some work combining early elevations and images of theatres with photos of them at this time which was an expression of the journey an artist takes from the idea to the final output.