Nikon Old and New
I've been on a journey with Nikon for nearly 50 years and all the cameras have served me well in one way or another. I've gone from a Nikon F…
Brotherhood of Breath 2018/19
Some of my best early memories of great jazz gigs are of the Brotherhood of Breath in London in the late 60s/early 70s.
Prince Albert Tobacco Tin
This is my submission to the Materialities Research Theme 2019/20 at BCU's Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR). You can see the theme submissions on the BCMCR website.…
New York to Wednesbury
One of the great pleasures of curating the Fives Decades of Self Portrait show at Wednesbury Art Gallery for the Blast Photo Festival was being able to show two American…
Cafe Royal Book Published
I'm really pleased that Craig Atkinson has published one of his Cafe Royal books featuring my photographs of the WELD Carnival in 1979. I only revisited the images recently when…
Chris Young
Two New Projects
I'm getting going on two projects which will surface in 2019. First with Multistory and Emma Chetcuti I am curating an exhibition of self portraits for the Blast! Festival which…
Saluting Sergeant Pepper
Django Bates and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band with Eggs Laid by Tigers at Ronnie Scott’s 5th September 2017 First a confession – I’ve never actually owned a copy of…
Let it be Told
A personal take on South African Jazz Last year Peter Bacon asked what’s the attraction of Township jazz to British jazz fans in previewing the Township Comets at Birmingham Jazz…
Fuji X100S
After reading all the reviews and talking to others who raved abut the little Fuji X100S I finally took the plunge and got one. The price dipped from very expensive…
iPhone 5
Every time a new Apple product comes out those of us who are Apple users usually get that frisson "do I want one or do I need one?" It's the…
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