About Form Photography

I am self-taught in landscape photography and live in East Anglia. My attraction to photography stems from time spent in a school-days darkroom, but my interests have broadened to include the so-called "Alternative Processes", about which more later, and a theoretical underpinning.

Two photographers in particular stand out in providing inspiration – Andrew Sanderson, who is influential in his pursuit of the expressive print, and Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), for his love of exploration, summed up in him saying:

“It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!”

Making a creative choice to continue to use film-based cameras my interests have broadened to include some of the historic photographic processes that are no longer widely practised.

I hand-print the black and white pictures using traditional wet darkroom processes, which are toned using, for example, selenium, gold, or sepia. The colour photographs are printed by a professional lab. The colours reflect the choice of film, and I have moved over time from exclusively using a saturated transparency film to now preferring more muted colours.