18percent April. 2016 | Page 5

   Do  you  have  a  favourite  image  of  your  own?   Not  a  favourite,  not  really,  there  are  too  many  of  them.   Favourites  endure,  they  are  favourites  when  I  see  them  again   and  they  are  sort  of  recalled  briefly.    What  has  been  your  most  memorable  shoot?   Photographing  a  friend’s  wedding  when  I  was  very  young  and   the  back  of  the  camera  was  open  and  I  was  too  ashamed  or   embarrassed  to  say  anything  so  I  just  pretended  and  carried   on.  Knowing  it  was  knackered.    What  is  your  favourite  e diting  tool,  if  you  have  one?   Editing  tool  as  in  image  manipulation?  Yes     Ah  ok,  well  my  h ands.  In  the  dark  room  that’s  it  isn’t  it.    What  is  your  favourite  photographing  accessory  apart  from   your  camera?   Photographic  accessory?  Like  piece  of  equipment.  Light  meter,   yeah  Western.  (brand  of  light  meter)         What  do  you  think  of  the  photography  industry  at  the  moment  and  where  do  you  see  it  in  five  years?     I  suppose  really  it’s  what  I  keep   on  quoting  and  it’s  Lazlo  Moholy-­‐ Nagy  and  he  said,  “the  illiterate   of  the  future  will  be  those  who   don’t  know  the  camera.”  We’ve   kind  of  got  there,  you  know   people  use  photography  every   day  now,  th ere’s  all  the  different   social  media  websites  that   people  upload  images  to,  that   promote  that  kind  of  amateur-­‐ish   interest  in  professional  work.  The   quantity  of  photography  that  is   available  to  you  as  an  audience   at  the  click  of  a  button  is  quite   incredible  and  behind  all  of  that   is  an  industry  trying  to  sell  more   and  more  equipment  so  from  a   future  point  of  view  from  five   years  down  the  road  I  think   basically  the  industry  is  h uge   and  the  quantity  of  imagery  is   huge.  What  that  has  as  an   impact  in  terms  of  the  history  of   photography  is  really  significant,   but  actually,  it’s  also  fascinating   that  when  you  look  at  all  of  that   material,  h ow  little  of  it  seems  to   be  meaningful  in  a…  I  have  to  b e   careful  what  I  say  h ere…  it’s  all   meaningful  but  meaningful  in   relation  to  an  established   history,  there  seems  to  be  a   huge  amount  of  derivative,   mediocre  photography  that  is   just  being  repetitively  produced   for  nominal  consumption.  So  the   quantity  and  actual  quality  that’s   being  manufactured  relative  to   that  increase  is  miniscule.