mazpho.to

"Only dead fish go with the flow."

My photography centres on personality, emotion and the human condition: portraiture [link removed], events [link removed] and art nude [link removed].

I've been developing my own film and prints for twenty years, but also shoot DSLRs and scan film digitally. My fridge at home is half food, half film. Speaking of which, may I offer some advice? Never mistake a bottle of Rodinal for Pepsi. Worst. Cola float. Ever.

For me photography is about what we create with lights and cameras, people and emotions. I enjoy the shooting and the processing, but not the post-processing. This means I try to create quality in-camera, so I turn things out quickly, but won't be doing an impression of Miss Aniela any time soon. I'm quite comfortable with your standard studio shoot, but love to get out on location for something really special.

I do photography more for collaborative artistic expression and pleasure rather than for the money. That said, I am published — national daily papers, national billboard advertising campaigns — but I'm still too surprised by this to have let the fame go to my head (and in any case, the fixer fumes got there first).

I shoot for various bits of the UK alternative scenes (Apocalypse Girls [link removed], ArA [link removed], Infest [link removed], Resistanz [link removed]).

My fridge is stocked with:

• Kodak: Portra 160 NC [link removed], Kodak Tri-X 400 [link removed], Vision3 250D
• Fuji: Velvia 50 [link removed], Fuji F-64D [link removed]
• Ilford: PAN 400 [link removed], FP4 Plus [link removed], Kentmere 400 [link removed]
• Rollei: Infrared 400S [link removed], Retro 80S [link removed], RPX 100 [link removed], Digibase CN 200 [link removed], Ortho 25 [link removed], Digibase CR 200 [link removed]
• Fomapan: Fomapan 100 [link removed], Fomapan 200
• Developers: Rodinal [link removed], Rollei High Contrast [link removed], Caffenol [link removed], D-74 [link removed], RPX-D [link removed], Tetenal Colortec E6 [link removed], Rollei Digibase C41 [link removed], RA-4

Normal is boring. Dare to be different.