This conditioning has led society to move away from the technical aspects and emotional attachment to our photographs as the excitement and the expectation of having an image produced onto paper from film slowly declines as this medium becomes obsolete.

I photograph with two medium-format plastic Holga cameras, “toy cameras” loaded with 120 films. The cameras themselves are simply made and are mounted with a fixed 55mm lens. Technically the cameras are easy to operate with three focal settings and two shutter release positions. The Perspex lens creates a vignette shadowing around the edges of the image which is part of the unique aspect these cameras provide.

I tend to photograph everyday objects, be it landscape or urbanscape. Many times in a day we will pass through these spaces and there will be a moment of subtle acknowledgement of this environment where we will see something that triggers a memory, recognition or reflection. This ‘instant’ is the moment I attempt to preserve. There are several objectives when I photograph, I try to incorporate tone, texture and colour contrast only cropping  by using the viewfinder. These guides, hopefully, allow me to reveal something special about the scene that I am capturing.

The final piece is not manipulated by use of software to remove or crop any unwanted additions to the image and is reliant on external influences. The results can vary from each roll of film due to the toy nature of the camera, from double exposure, dust, dirt, light leakage to having film damaged during shooting all of these random events contribute to the final image. They are viewing an artwork that has been through a process that does not require deleting. The imagery presented involves not only my influence as the photographer but that of a lab in the film developing and printing, to the final interpretation and emotional response of the viewer...