"all i can do in this life is be me, whoever that is."

bob dylan

"i just like shooting".

Henri Cartier-Bresson

i bought a camera in late january 2007 and i started to take photos of where i lived (Belfast, N. Ireland). the first photos were mainly landscapes and abstract shots, just experimenting and learning how to use a camera.

after a few months i started to get bored with landscapes, so i started to go into the city with my camera and took shots of people going about their business. some shots i took, i knew were good instantly; and some i discovered were good, long after i put them into my photo library. and the rest, the vast majority of shots that i've taken are nothings, pure and simple.

so then i have gravitated towards street photography. faces say so much about a person. you can tell a lot about someone's past from studying their face. it is not easy, but i love it. when i was living in the city you notice diversity in the faces, but homogeneity in the attire, especially in the young. but moving into rural parts you tend to notice tradition running deep, things move slower in the countryside than in the city, but certainly no less structured.

i'm obviously confined to my own psychology when i take pictures. i photograph what interests me and me only. i like photographing the young and the old because they always do interesting stuff. everything else i shoot just interests me at that particular moment, not much else can be said really.