Photography is one of many art forms that I enjoy participating in as a theorist, a critic and a practitioner. The mental and material act of taking photographs has stimulated a series of awakenings inside of me. I have been rapidly learning how to use photography as one of several means through which I am able to express myself.

Through photography I have also come to value and to appreciate each of the worlds that I have been fortunate enough to experience during the course of my lifetime. My photography has an affinity to music . My pictures are like a visual soundtrack that has accompanied events in my life.

Through the discipline of taking photographs on a regular basis I have learnt how to capture, follow through and make sense of some of the visual traces of the world around me. Many of the relationships and things that I have attempted to comprehend through the use of a camera (and a lens) exist in a condition of constant flux and constant change.

Like my own self the photographs that I have created exist as provisional traces of ever-changing objects and things. The visual traces of each of the the entities that I have captured exist in an uneasy relationship to the material causes that determine the type of relationships that can emerge between the past, the present and the future. In this sense, my photographs are more than just the material residue of a specific moment when I clicked the shutter. They are active anticipations of a less fractured lifeworld.

For me, there is no clear distinction - in my work - between the word and the image, the book and the print, the poet and the imagemaker, the archive and the activist, the scholar and the street wise kid who lives on the block.

Photography interests me because it encourages me to find adventure and enchantment in the simplest of things. It also interests me because it encourages me to explore, celebrate and question the finality of the relationships that I am fortunate enough to encounter in my part of the world. The majority of the photographs that I have decided to include on Flick-r were taken close at hand. Paradoxically, the tendency to concentrate my focus on things that were close to home has been of lasting benefit to me. It has encouraged me to venture far and wide in my imagination.

I have not received any formal training in photography. Picture taking is what I do when I stop writing and stop talking. I have selected pics that are well worth seeing. Hopefully, the sets are of sufficient quality to provoke and encourage further dialogue with all of you out there. Do enjoy the pictures, I have enjoyed putting them together.