Journal · field notes
Notes from the road
How each series was made: the light, the film, the people who let me in. Plus the occasional note on how a commission works.
Bay of Cádiz, Spain
Three winters of waiting on the salt pans
Why Salt Roads took three winters, and what a road made of salt looks like on the one morning a year it is perfect.
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Northumberland, England
Pushing HP5 on a February beach
Notes on light, film and cold hands from the Low Tide commission, for anyone shooting the coast in winter.
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London and Lisbon
Twenty minutes after the mist
The palm houses in Glasshouse were all made in the same short window each morning. Here is how I found it.
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Lisbon, Portugal
How a commission starts: the first call
What I ask on the first call, what I need from you before a shoot, and why I usually suggest fewer pictures.
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