www.warmtone.co.uk

Photographer | Bristol, United Kingdom

Tell us about your background?
I studied photography at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth, UK, and worked in London and as a freelance assistant. At the same time I wrote songs and sung in bars and when “Dummy” by Portishead came out (a defining moment), I moved to Bristol, got involved with a group called Alpha and had the good fortune to make some records. All the time I took pictures of the people around me and the places I went and gradually I learned how to capture what I wanted, mostly in black & white. I grew up a bit as well and I started to think through my ideas properly. I still make music but I concentrate far more on photography now.

What inspires you?
New experiences, people’s faces, light & dark, strange places, those tingling feelings and the changing seasons.

What are you able to do for a photo?
Whatever is necessary I suppose but I don’t want to hurt or annoy anyone.


What is the material you are using?
A rolleiflex 6×6 for black and white and a Cannon digital SLR for colour. Sometimes, if I get the chance, I like to use a 5×4 camera and revel in the quality that it produces.

What are the moments you like to size?
Inspiring subjects often just appear out of nowhere but they are also right in front of your eyes, and grabbing the right moment is precisely what is fascinating to me about photography.

Your favorite artists?
Ralph Eugine Meatyard, Martin Parr, Diane Arbus, Carl de Keyser, Atget, Brassai, Nick Drake, Jacques Brel, Joni Mitchell.


The nicest exhibition you have seen?
Cecil Beaton (National Portrait Gallery), Enrique Metinides (Photographers Gallery), Joel Sternfeld (Photographers Gallery), The John Hinde Butlin’s Photographs (Photographers Gallery), Sea & Sky: Photographs by Gustave Le Gray (V & A), Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O’Keeffe, Gifts from the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation (V&A).

The nicest moment in your life? Have you photos of it?
My friends have photographs of some of my “wonderful moments”, to whom I pay money, in order to stop those pictures ever seeing the light of day.

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