City Street Woman Artwork

Kingston, Kent, England, 1962, but I now live in Poland.

My interest is in using simple tools to explain very complex issues, whether this forms part of my job, my life or the images I produce with a camera and editing software.
My camera is a simple digital one that you might take in your bag on vacation, it simply grabs digital information I can later work with using Gimp on my computer. Each image has an idea in it, although when the idea occurs is not fixed. I don't consider myself a photographer, just someone who manipulates information to demonstrate my ideas.
One of the issues that never seems to go away is overspecialization, where we attempt to train people in one subject to the highest level they can go. This leads to problems in communication between specializations, and gently ignores the question as to whether everyone is a born specialist.
I don't feel like a specialist, and as a consequence have happily changed careers many times, but does this make a failure? Is my and others inability to focus on the same thing for years or even decades a bad thing?
My role has been to understand the needs of different specialists, and to bring them together without much need to engage in lengthy studies of their fields first.
Low tech, low skill my images may be, but they are just part of what I do, which is showing people that they are allowed to experiment outside their fields.
It's about confidence, and at the moment here in the east of Poland that is in short supply.