I’m Paul. A photographer. And, yes, that’s me. Not very pretty, I know; which is why I’m usually behind the camera and not in front of it.

Photography means writing with light but you probably already knew that. My style of photography is called photojournalism; it traditionally tells stories using photography, and as a photographic genre it seems to have become stuck, being perceived as restricted to the media. When you think of politics, war and famine… these are the topics you most probably associate with photojournalism. I shoot documentary photography, narrative photography, it can even be called reportage photography — Telling the stories of folk just like you and me, ordinary people. Except there’s no such thing as ordinary people. We’re all unique. No one’s life is lived exactly like another’s. When in the future, your grandchildren ask what your life was like, back in the day, you’ll reach for your photographs to show them, to help you illustrate your words of your life’s story.

My work basically is shown as shot. I never crop, clone, remove/add anything to an image; occasionally I do adjust colour, tone, hue and exposure just as you would for photographs shot on film, but I do nothing else. I shoot what I see; I don’t pose anything in my photographs. Good photography does not need hours spent in front of a computer, “fixing” images that the photographer should have got right in the first place.

The integrity and honesty of my work is very important to me. People are the motivation for my work, people excite my photography. I couldn’t imagine me doing anything else. I don’t want to do anything else and I hope that sentiment is reflected in my work as I passionately believe that the truth of a moment should be left alone. Fashions I leave to the likes of designers. Truth outlasts any fad. A photograph is for the future and is meant for those of the future: your children and grand children, and, who knows, maybe for future historians, too.

All of the above might make me sound stuffy; I’m not. Far from it, I have a quick, relaxed wit, a ready laugh, and a comfortable personality: you see, I like people and that’s the most important attribute any photographer can possess. If you aren’t comfortable with the person behind the lens, you will not be comfortable in front of it.

Anyway, enjoy my work. Let me know what you like, and, just as importantly, what you don’t.

Thanks for visiting.