Author: Christian

Witchy Places

Witchy Places

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have visited Knaresborough quite a few times to walk, and shoot and entertain small children, but I had not visited it’s so called main attraction – Mother Shiptons Caves. As a bit of a summer treat we took the younger two out for the 

Skipton

Skipton

Reading Time: 2 minutes Skipton is another place that, although broadly on my doorstep, I have never actually explored. I have kept meaning to walk there as a part of my canal project, but this time we got the train. What struck me about the place is that it 

Purple Haze

Purple Haze

Reading Time: 2 minutes Once again, the lure of the Lomo hits… It’s funny, I have such a love/hate relationship with this idea. My practise totally encompasses mad experimentation, but the obsessive commercialisation of it from the Lomography movement is somehow distatseful. Nonetheless, when I happened across some Lomochrome 

Images from The Underground

Images from The Underground

Reading Time: < 1 minutes After a certain amount of thought, I have decided to cull the Images From The Underground Website. There’s a few reasons for this – to be fair, in the days of social media, the people who I would like to engage with this project do 

Goodbye

Goodbye

Reading Time: 2 minutes You wrote your life upon the pages,Of a book no one has read,You dreamed your dreams upon the stage,Of a theatre in your head.Farewell your life in the dusty streets,Of a town you used to call your home,The dead-end streets that gave to you,All you’ve 

Scarborough

Scarborough

Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve not managed a holiday this year, for various reasons, but we have managed a rather good day out in Scarborough, courtesy of Unison. This is one of the perks being a member offers; a free day trip to the sea-side each year, and with 

Claire

Claire

Reading Time: 2 minutes They were still young when he first met her,To fragile to hold, he feared she would be torn.So many miles and lives between them,It could have been, but life was just too cruel. And on that day when she first held him,She felt him inside, 

Old Skool Acid Fun

Old Skool Acid Fun

Reading Time: < 1 minutes So it’s not often you get a new track ready in the space of a few hours. Actually that’s not fully true, but for the purposes of now, and today, and slinging together an album at some point it is. I made this getting on 

Hiraeth

Hiraeth

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s just another town on a Friday night,Broken and bleeding too tired to fight,Sit and dream on my own as the daylight is fading,Relentlessly scenes from the past are returning. All the beers and the girls, self abuse and deception,Along with the faces and endless 

Splitzed and hacked and filtered…

Splitzed and hacked and filtered…

Reading Time: 4 minutes And so, back again to the dreaded Lomography. It is funny how it always ends up there.  One thing I will say is that the Lomography crowd have an almost insatiable desire for hacking things, making cameras do weird and wonderful effects and sometimes I 

Heptonstall

Heptonstall

Reading Time: 2 minutes As I probably complain quite a bit about, having a young child and trying to get anything done can be quite a challenge at times. Often, Photography and entertaining the kids need to be combined – I’ve not done much recently, but to give a 

Requiem Ensanglanté

Requiem Ensanglanté

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m pretty excited to reveal to you a new project… Over two decades ago I started writing lyrics, charting my story from leaving my Hometown of Cambridge, moving to Leeds and the relationships, adventures, fuckups and learning that I went through. Of course, like many