Back in time..

A class piece of cutting-edge photojournalism for you today, with a picture I shot in 1979 for the Sale & Altrincham Messenger. Don't forget to turn your clocks back, dear reader - that's what this photo's saying, loud and clear! And not staged, at all! Well, ok.. a little bit! So that was the summer, and now it's officially going to be cold and dark for the next six months! Oh, look on the bright side, why don't you, Martin. But isn't it funny how even clocks can look old-fashioned! Man, I am so steeped in my history at the moment because I have finally - yes, finally - scanned in all my old negatives. I'm going to have a fantastic archive of around 1, 500 old black and white photographs from the seventies and eighties. Just need to start getting the dust and scratches off 'em all now! But what a collection. Now that's what you call turning the clock back!
Enjoy your lie-in!...

Sparkling...

I'm sure I must have blogged this image before but hey, it deserves an annual outing! It's a shot I did when I worked for Eddy Shah on Messenger Group Newspapers, based in south Manchester. It made it to the company calendar for 1981, and I'm trying really hard not to think about that being 30 years ago!!!

I went to the opening of the new Open Eye photography gallery in Liverpool last night. Met Mitch Epstein, a favourite American photographer of mine, and had a little think about how they should hang my next exhibition there. Only joking! I don't think my photography's "serious" enough for them!
Never mind... the wine was good, Mitch signed my copy of his book and I almost had my photograph taken with him! (The lady I handed my camera to was a little slow off the mark when it came to pressing the shutter. Hey ho..) Happy Bonfire Night!