Welcome to Urban Camera.

I take photographs for personal pleasure, without any intention of making a profit, of commercial marketing, or of setting anyone caught before my lens up for a fall. Years ago I would have been called a Candid or Street Photographer, one of a small band of individuals who wander through town and country with a camera in their hand – rather like some of the more famous names you’ll hear of now and then, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, or Brassaï (Gyula Halász). I am one of those nondescript individuals who tends to blend into the background; perhaps you will see me but not register my presence, perhaps you will not see me at all. My weapon of choice in the battle that is life on Earth is a simple camera, and an eye for the interesting.

I also read and write a good deal, it’s not as if my interests are confined to just one aspect of the Arts. Those Arts are many and varied, intertwined one with another, and with those of us who take an interest in them. This site will be, I hope, a good mixture on the Arts, of interests, reports, opinions, photography. A small selection from an almost irrelevant life spent travelling, exploring, experiencing. Thoughts on literature, politics, social mores and life, experiences with others, and alone. Above all, though, I hope that this will be a small place for my own candid photography, for a few views of people I have seen out on the streets, going about their daily lives. Ordinary people, living ordinary – extraordinary – lives, shared for a moment or two.