Paul Hardy Carter

I am a photographer working in many genres using traditional techniques. Here at Saatchi Online I'm showing my nude work.

I use 35mm black and white film, I always use a 50mm lens and I always print the whole frame. I don't crop.

The following is from the introduction to the book 'The Constant Eye, Vol.1':

"My technique seems to cause consternation in some quarters, which I'm frankly always surprised by. I'm either dismissed as a regressive dilettante or accused of willful contrariness, usually by people who don't know what I'm trying to do. So I thought I'd set down what my technique involves - then at least we'll have it straight.

This is not intended to be a defence of the way I work as, quite frankly, there's nothing to defend. It's a choice, like why I drink red wine and not white. I also don't claim to have invented anything here. There is nothing revolutionary about this - far from it. There are a number of us out there, using old-fashioned cameras and monochrome film.

I use a 35mm rangefinder camera - in fact I usually carry two, with 50mm lenses. I have two in case one breaks, but also so that I can have different film stocks loaded. I usually use 400asa film, sometimes pushed as far as 1600asa, but also 125...