Long before I got interested in photography, I grew up on a steady diet of hardboiled detective novels and film noir movies. I read novels by the likes of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and later on James Ellroy. On my must watch list of film noir were classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Double...
One of the great joys of shooting B&W film is seeing the contact sheets for the first time. For me, there is always a sense of excitement as I try to match what I had in my mind when I took the photos with what actually appears on the contact sheet. Looking at my contact...
A friend of mine recommended that I check out Saul Leiter’s photographic work quite some time ago and it was on my ‘to do list’ for over a year. I finally got hold of a copy of his book Saul Leiter: Early Color and have been browsing through the book over the last two weeks. Some...