NEW Book!

NEW - The Art of Black and White Film Photography - First Edition
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280 Pages
Spiral bound
Soft Cover

“As a child I sat for hours in the library, staring at the photographs in books. To me they were sublime. How was I ever going to make photographs like them?”

You can make photographs like them, and of the highest standard, all on a humble camera. It’s absolutely achievable, easy, and very affordable.

It’s been a long, repeated myth that we have to spend a lot on equipment to achieve the best quality, but this just isn’t true. Some believe that we must use large format cameras to have any chance of emulating the eminent artists of photography, others that we need the very best, nano coated, aspheric, apo-chromatically corrected lenses. 

This just isn’t true! 

By the 1970s, the quality of cameras and lenses had far surpassed those of the hero photographers that I followed as a young lad. By the 1980s and 1990s, we had peaked in lens design for film. So, those beautifully crafted, glowing prints on the walls of exhibitions, that I dreamt of making, are now easily within our grasp. 

Once you know the simple techniques, equipment, and workflow the masters used to make them.

In this new book, I describe my personal journey to emulate the masters. I talk about my difficulties as a young photographer, striving to get the very best from my camera, lens, and film - and often how I failed. Eventually though, through study, practice, and shear tenacity, I learned the methods that made beautiful prints to hang on my wall. By relaying the experiences that worked for me, the methodology and great tips I learned through 55 years of film photography, all in a no-nonsense practical way, I hope to provide valuable knowledge and examples that will help you make the very best photographs to hang on your wall.

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