Anonymous asked: Hey, I live in Sutton and think its really cool how you make the banal there quite interesting to look at..I've always thought those horses in croydon near the ikea towers would be a great thing to photograph.
A question:
What *is* your view on digital photography? Surely its all just a means to an end, an interesting image is exaclty that, how it was made, surely, has no relevance?

You’re exactly right, it is all a means to an end. I’d argue there is relevance to a photographers’ choice though in that i believe that with a lot of smaller, more compact analogue cameras the level of intimacy and candidness you can achieve is vital to the outcome…but obviously this depends entirely on how and why you shoot photos.

Don’t get me wrong here - just because I have strongly made my position of support for shooting film, I’m no digital hater - and most ‘film purists’ who hold some kind of digital grudge are generally fucking idiots who couldn’t get anything good out of a digital camera, so they fall back on grain, and weird colours, and yashica T4 blown-out flashes. I use a digital camera, there are digital photographs on my website. When it comes down to it, it is all about aesthetic preference as to how you like your images to look and be presented; I personally prefer the idea of having a physical chemical image on a negative to having a string of data on a hard-drive, and having a colourful, rich range of factors to play around with when i’m taking a picture to a load of different automated presets.