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Everything covered on a workshop walk, written down: the settings you do once and never touch, ten things worth looking for, how to actually ask a stranger, and why standing still in one plain place beats walking further. Fifteen pages, six photographs.

It is free, and it stays free. No email, no list, no course at the end of it. If you never come on a walk it still works, which is the point of writing it down.

Download the PDF Or read it here

Any frame from I Was There or Towards the Light, as a pigment print on ILFORD GALERIE Smooth Pearl, 310gsm. Signed and numbered in an edition of twelve, in three sizes.

Street portraits are not for sale. My Friends, The Strangers is a showcase of the portrait work and nothing in it is offered as a print. These are portraits captured in public places or with the permission of their subject, which is not the same as permission to sell a face.

Ordered directly for now: name the frame by its caption line and I come back with price, availability in the edition, and paper advice.

See it on your wall Sizes, paper & how to order

The looks this archive is actually built on, packaged for Lightroom and Camera Raw, not a filter pack, but the starting points I work from, with notes on where each one wants to be pushed.

• Mono, the black-and-white conversion behind three quarters of the work: deep blacks, texture held in the highlight, no lifted-shadow fashion.
• Night, for sodium, neon and wet asphalt, where the colour of the light is the subject.
• Contrast, the one behind Towards the Light: expose for the opening, let the subject go to a shape.

Tell me when they land