Self-taught photographer travelling with a camera for thirty years. Landscapes, streets and the people who live in them. Neither https://xitter.cf/t.co/lRtJBkoI5p
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First morning in Havana: flat roofs from the hotel balcony to the horizon, patched and lived in. Then 2,500 km west to east. Viñales, Trinidad, the Sierra Maestra, a barber in Santiago, Baracoa. 2014. Sound on.
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A man reads his newspaper on a tiled balcony in Porto, laundry on the line beside him. Portugal end to end, June 2018: Silves, Évora, Castelo de Vide, Marvão, Lamego, Braga, Lisbon, the Algarve. Sound on.
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Fader Friday — Console of the Week: Soundtracs Jade.
Soundtracs' flagship analog desk — the one Leftfield mixed Leftism on, one of the defining electronic albums of the 1990s.
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1 votes • Final resultsLooking down the barrel of a howitzer left standing on the red earth at Khe Sanh, the old US base near the DMZ.
My first real backpack trip, the kind that started with Australia — moving place to place, not the hotel-and-day-tours holidays before it.
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A dragon painted on a wall in Bogotá, and a man went past at speed just as I raised the camera — red shirt, flowers in his mouth matching the graffiti behind him. One frame, flash, gone.
Three weeks across Colombia, Andes to Caribbean.
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The Pantheon's oculus has been open to the sky for 1,900 years. When it rains in Rome it rains inside — the floor drains.
And in Sant'Ignazio the dome is not a dome. Pozzo painted it flat on the ceiling.
Four of ten: Rome, Granada, Jaipur, Porto.
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Kelingking on Nusa Penida has been photographed a million times. Getting down to that beach is about a thousand steps, and hardly anyone at the viewpoint makes the walk.
Two weeks island-hopping, October 2019 — Bali, the Nusas, Gili Air, Lombok.
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Bacardí left Cuba in 1960. The building stayed, and it still looks out over all of Havana Vieja.
Three weeks across Cuba, January 2014 — Viñales, Trinidad, the Sierra Maestra, Baracoa.
Hemingway's Havana or the Buena Vista one — which did you picture?
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J.K. Rowling taught English in Porto and started the first Harry Potter book there.
Three weeks through Portugal, June 2018 — Silves in the Algarve up to Porto, and all the way back down.
Porto or Lisbon — which one would you go back to?
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Annapurna was the first eight-thousander anyone ever climbed — 1950, three years before Everest.
In Bandipur the cloud sits under the ridge, at sunrise the valley is a white sea with one peak above it.
Annapurna at dawn, or fog on the river at Chitwan?
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Not the best location to shoot, but did it anyway.
Last shot you can barely make out some of the Perseid meteorites that came later.
Not a fan of city light pollution.
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The fountains were switched off while I was shooting the Taj. Flat water holds the whole building upside down.
India, October 2014 — day six of an overland trip from Delhi to Kathmandu.
The Taj at first light, or the ghats at Varanasi after dark?
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The tow truck Pixar turned into Mater is still parked in Galena, Kansas. Real truck, same spot.
The Blue Swallow in Tucumcari has switched its neon on since 1939.
Easy Rider, Rain Man or Cars — which put Route 66 in your head?
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I made this archive because of a roll of film that failed.
My first solo trip around the world, 1996. The humidity jammed the film without my knowing — of Singapore I had nada, of Aussie & Fiji almost nothing.
Seventy-eight photographs came home.
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