My Words
Writing helps me pull together my thoughts. As I want to be a thoughtful photographer, I write.
These are short essays about other photographers and their photobooks, chosen because their work helps me with mine.
A Different Planet
Two children eat ice creams on the cover of Martin Parr’s The Last Resort. Any other photographer would have wiped their faces first. Parr wanted the drips. Parr was the antidote to propaganda, which is not the same as a kindness.
He died in December 2025, a satirist and a national treasure. Somewhere in Blackpool in the 1980s, we might have crossed paths.