Architecture nominee

ENGLISH MEDIEVAL CATHEDRALS

This portfolio pays homage to the great English medieval cathedrals, one of the finest achievements of English architecture.

Because of their chequered history of semi-continuous building and rebuilding, they exhibit a wide variety of architectural styles, evolution and implementation, from early Norman through to Late Gothic – both within one building as well as between them – providing great scope for innovation and excitement in the creation of space and vision.

I’m engrossed by the imagination and skills of those who conceived and built them, the awe-inspiring scale and the interactions between form and function at a human level, as well as a sense of the faith and divine purpose for which they were created. It’s these elements that I’m attempting to capture in my photographs -- structures that signal strength and purpose, beauty and majesty, elegance and grace, exuberance and awe, intimacy and reflection – demonstrating such a magnificent variety of form for common functions

Born and raised in England, but living in California since the late 1980’s, my photographic skills are self-taught through decades of patience and practice. Black and white photography has always been my first love -- the simplicity, elegance, drama, timeliness and richness that it can bring to an image for me drives a more visceral response. I’m excited by the emotional ‘punch’ that black and white images bring in this particular context – the contrasts between light and dark, areas of luminance and tonality, and the abstractions of shapes and forms -- that “special” quality that heightens the emotion and impact of the image.


10th Annual Pollux Awards, 2017: Winner, Fine Art Category: "In English Country Houses"

2nd Charles Dodgson B&W Award, 2017: Finalist: People, Culture & Daily Life, "Haggling at the Goat Market"; Fine Art, "English Medieval Cathedrals"; Portraits, "The Artisans of Hakart"

Prix de la Photographie, Paris, 2017: Honorable Mention, People, "The Artisans of Hakart"

Fine Art Photography Awards, 2016/17: Nominee: Architecture, "English Medieval Cathedrals"; Fine Art, "In English Country Houses"

International Photographer of the Year, 2015: 1st Prize: Architecture, Industrial: "Col. Ward Pumping Station"

American Aperture Awards (Ax3), 2013: 1st Prize, Architecture/Cityscape, "English Medieval Cathedrals"