I'm a professional portrait photographer with a studio in Central London. My love of photography can be traced to when I saw an image emerge from a blank page. I was in my grandfather's darkroom and I was 10. My first camera was a Kodak 126 Instamatic, and I had to crack open the film carrier to develop my first films. I did not have an enlarger, so all my images were small, square contact prints.

Fast forward 40 years, my portraits can be found advertising Pantomime Shows across the United Kingdom, I count actors, celebrities, politicians and CEOs amongst my clients. But something is missing - digital is too perfect, too commercial. So, clutching an old Soviet rangefinder loaded with HP 5, I walk out into London and start reconnecting with real photography again.

The images I share on Flickr are personal projects. I am particularly interested in people and their traces. Our urban environment has been created by peoples whose cultures and attitudes are both alien and precursors to our current age. Their artefacts: from the fine decoration on a bandstand to the sweeping span of a bridge gives clues to what it felt like in those eras. And I'm particularly interested in people - how they express themselves with style and adornment, how they interact with others and the lived environment. Only analogue photography, with its indexality - the physical connection to the object being photographed - has the authenticity to capture these realities.

My cameras of choice are:

1. Zorki 4K Rangefider with four prime lenses and a KMZ turret. (Jupiter 8, 50mm, 9, 85mm, 11, 125mm, 12, 35mm, M39 thread)

2. Zenit XP 12 with two primes (MC Helios-44M-4 58mm Prime and Jupiter 11A 135mm M42 thread)

3. Bronica Medium Format, ETRSi