LVT

Tartus, Syria, 2005: The French legacy in Syria is still apparent 60 odd years later… France occupied Syria and Lebanon between the First and Second World Wars, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. French is still widely spoken in the region, particularly in Lebanon. I think La Vieille means “old woman” -or just old. The […]

Black Cat

Puerta Banus, Spain, 1998: This black cat kinda looks dead- but it was just stretching in the sun… Mamiya ZE/50mm f1.7

One Man Band

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999; A one man band- a street act I saw a number of times during the Edinburgh festival. I’m pretty sure he was from Canada… Mamiya ZE/Mamiya-Sekor 50mm f1.7

Bobadilla

Bobadilla, Andalucia, Spain, 1998: It was completely by accident I visited Bobadilla at all… We’d caught a night-train from the west coast at Valencia, to Granada in the south. We made the mistake of catching it on a Friday night, on a long weekend. It got really stuffy and intense in the compartment with the […]

Luxsign

Luxor, Egypt, 2005: The old and the new… A traffic sign with the ancient city of Thebes in the background. Egypt is a country full of contrasts and contradictions -not to mention history; and hopefully with the recent unprecedented revolution- a country full of promise…. Canon EOS 55/Canon 28-135is

Departures

London, 2004: Had one of those super-cheap flight’s out of London (Stanstead) to Palermo in Sicily. The catch was… it left at six in the morning. So we got a late flight in from Dublin and killed a bit of time, then wandered around looking for a place to doss for a few hours. It […]

Isoly

Petone, NZ, 2009: Before the Holga, and even the Diana, was the “Isoly”… The Agfa Isoly was an inexpensive and simple plastic camera made by Agfa in the 1960’s. Shooting 12 frames (4″/4″)on 120 film, it’s plastic lens produces dreamy, pastoral, & slightly out of focus images. It is generally agreed that the Hong Kong […]

Duo

Central Anatolia, Turkey, 2003: A grab shot of a couple of local lads along the roadside- somewhere near Cappadocia… Canon EOS A2e/Sigma 28-105mm/Kodak Tri-X

B&W

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998: A contrasting scene during the Edinburgh Festival street festivities… Mamiya ZE/Sekor 50mm f1.7