What I’m doing now…

What I’m doing now …is looking at websites on photography. Not an easy task, because there’s no filter I can think of that discriminates between interesting and worthwhile… and the rest. Gareth and I have been talking about the vocational aspects of the courses, now even more important since the BA (Hons) in Photography was...
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Back in China, and increasingly fascinated with the contrast between modern and old, and the way that they fit together. I just left the town of Leshan in Sichuan, a couple of hours drive south of the capital Chengdu. It’s famous for having the world’s largest Buddha, 71 metres tall, built between 713 CE...
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I’m now in Colombia, and for the last two weeks in Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast. This is South America’s second oldest colonial city (the slightly older one is Santa Marta, a two-to-three hour drive up the coast) and its best preserved. One of my walks is around the old city on top of...
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Oh… I only just realised that I’ve ignored this part of the site for a long time. Maybe this is why I find Twitter impossible (quite apart from never being able to say anything in just a couple of lines) It’s not as if I didn’t have anything to write about, either. On Saturday I...
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This trip now drawing to a close, as well it should after seven weeks on the road. Today I just returned from a twelve-day drive through Tibet east of Lhasa, ending at Qamdo, which brings the total mileage for the month up to a little short of 4,000 kilometres, all in 4WDs, a little...
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After Yunnan, on to western Sichuan and its high grasslands, Tibetan culture. A 12-day drive along various parts of the tea road towards Tibet. For Tibet proper (meaning the T.A.R.), we need four permits to drive around, and that takes time, so I’m first doing the Sichuan side and then, after a couple of...
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Back in Yunnan, following the tea road. After a couple of days in the capital, Kunming, I drive to Dali, which is well-established on the tourist map. So much so that, despite having been an important stop on the Tea-Horse Road from the tea mountains in the south of Yunnan up towards Tibet, it’s...
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This several-week trip began in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago. A week there photographing contemporary interiors for a new book, and attending Hong Kong’s first tea fair, as part of my current book project on tea. Then to near the city of Chongqing in central China, with my Chinese clients who are...
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After last month’s filming in Singapore for Sony, I just returned from Rome, where I joined the Magidson Films crew at the Vatican. Nostalgia for the old days of film? Try this — A/C Alex Falk loading 70mm film. And lifting one of the two O’Connor cameras would definitely make you think twice before complaining...
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I’ve been doing very little shooting in this last month for the entirely necessary reason of developing this website – as well as making the picture selection for a new book, to be called The Art of Photography, and as well as working on the sequel to The Photographer’s Eye. In fact, the only...
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