"The city streets are my canvas, and the camera is my brush."
Shooting a place where everyone changes so fast is a real challenge .
People on their way to work, or out shopping with friends, the story is the same, yet so very different.
When I first started shooting the streets I was very naive. I did NOT want to include people in my pictures, only architecture, street signs, that type of thing. I thought, you can't go around pointing a camera at strangers. Overtime I learned to do just that, and it was a real turning point for me.
Photographing in a history rich city, like Nottingham, brings its own set of challenges. Taking pictures of the people is one thing, but trying to incorporate the style and historical parts is another thing all together. You have to try and do justice to both.
Do NOT let yourself get bogged down with what actually constitutes as 'street photography.' At the end of the day, it's just a box that the photography 'gatekeepers' want to put you in. Do your own thing. If you are stood in the street when you take the picture, doesn't that make it 'street?'
"My goal is to document life in the 2000's for as long as I can. Photographs that will one day showcase the culture and fashion of the time, in an ever changing world"