Cityscape nominee

An ongoing series of monochromes I am creating of city views - London, Toronto, Manchester feature in this set of five images. I am often drawn to the underbelly of the city, such as the deserted canal basin 'Castlefield' in Manchester that is one of the shots in this set.

I started out in photography with B&W film and regularly find that the images I record are about light, shade, mass and form. The colour is sometimes a distraction from these.

Stephen Ellis Bell MA(ed) BA(hons) Fine Art & Sculpture PGCE is a photographer and art creative based around Chester UK. He has been an art & photography teacher, a university lecturer in teacher training and the visual arts, a schools inspector and school improvement partner. He has taken early retirement from his last post of strategic lead for schools organisation and building regeneration with Stockport local authority in order to pursue a return to personal and creative works.

He has been published by Landscape Photography eMagazine, produced articles for the FujiLove website and been shortlisted in 2020 for the Landscape Photographer of the year and also shortlisted for the Kew Gardens' supported International Garden Photographer of the Year.