My photographs are of crystals of various substances in polarised light on my 1970 polarising microscope. They have no recognisable subject to hint at their scale. The result is a colourful vista of shape and form, eliciting a visual adventure, but intentionally leaving the viewer questioning what they are looking at. They must take it or leave it on this basis.
Those familiar with my photographs are often forgiven for accidentally referring to them as my “paintings”. However they are not. They are absolutely photographs of absolutely real subjects in their natural colour (when viewed in polarised light with a certain orientation of home fashioned wave plate or retarder). The originals producing these images can be retrieved from my cabinet of thousands of painstakingly made slides, and re-viewed in my microscope. There they are sometimes photographed again, with a different configuration of polarising filters and wave plates, and at different angles, to produce entirely different photographs, much like a landscape photographer might revisit and photograph the same landscape at different times of the year, or from different perspectives.

I am very enthusiastic about my ongoing project to make photographs that continue to defy norms and expectations in contemporary photography, and show a unique and completely fresh perspective on the world. I also enjoy bringing to light a set of real subjects which are otherwise hidden, and are very difficult to find, see and photograph, but still absolutely real.