A bit about me.

As an experienced photographer, (I have done it professionally but am just into the art side of it now) I use and enjoy the medium to express my artistic vision. Sometimes I indulge in Cityscapes, but my passion is street photography. I exhibit my work in both solo and collaborative shows. My last solo exhibition was a collection of my Street Portraits @ my pop up gallery in Hull City Centre, where it was well received, lots of great comments... "I’ve enjoyed looking at your photos more then a lot of art I’ve seen" I have also exhibited at established galleries such as the Islington Arts Factory, and the Greenpoint gallery in NYC, amongst others. My Cityscapes sell well wherever I have had them on show. With street portraits I'm often drawn to people living on the edges of society, eccentric characters etc and I enjoy engaging with them in the process.

It's an ongoing project, I have a large body of work which is constantly updating, growing. While walking and exploring with my camera I get lost in my own world and thoughts, it's almost a form of meditation, I photograph anything that inspires me at the time, be it a street shot, a portrait or a Cityscape. Street photography is recording social documentary in real time, ergo today's street photography is tomorrow's social history. I don't like to over contextualize my work, I prefer the viewer brings their own experiences and interpretations, we all see differently. "Art is not about something, art is something" - Sarah Bernhardt. Mostly using Instagram now for sharing my work, all my latest images can be seen there: @ Streetshootertim

 Contact info:

I am based in Hull, East Yorkshire, UK

Email: timev@gmx.com

Street Portrait

One of my recent street Portraits, a colourful girl in China town, London. Late September, 2020. I vary my tactics with street photography, sometimes I engage with people, sometimes I just grab the shot and carry on walking. Obviously with street portraits one has to have some kind of conversation with the subject. I find most people are happy to pose. I used a bit of flash for this one as it was getting dark, and it helped to bring out the colours more. Taken with a Canon 40D and a 24mm f2.8 prime lens, on the crop sensor of the 40D its approx 38/40mm focal length in 35mm film terms, which I like for street work. Though I use various lenses, inbetween 24mm to 80mm range, I dont have much use for long lenses and rarely go beyond 80mm

LX100/2 the upgrade that wasn’t.

Been using a compact Lumix LX100 for a while now, it’s a great solid camera, metal body, great Leica fixed zoom lens (24mm – 75mm in 35mm film terms) f1.7 and f2.8 at the long end, a nice range for street photography, 4/3rds sensor large for a compact. The only negative thing I can say about it is because it’s a fixed zoom there is a bit of delay in changing focal lengths, no big deal really. But I don’t get the upgrade? Apart from a couple of insignificant changes it’s the exact same camera! Same lens, same size sensor, maybe a few technical tweaks to the sensor but nothing thats going to make any difference to the end result! It even looks identical apart from a minor change to the grip? One of the “upgrades” is a few more pixels, but on the same size sensor so that means each individual pixel is smaller, larger pixels are able to grab more light. It’s an irrelevant “upgrade” to me? After processing raw images from the LX100 I end up with jpegs around 7 and 8mb more then big enough for large prints (how many people even make prints these days? Most simply share on various social media) I rarely print larger then A3.

My first DSLR was a 6.3mp Canon 10D a crop sensor camera, and the A3 prints from it were beautiful, not all pixels are born equal. I upgraded to a 40D only because the 10D was a bit slow in using, especially shooting in raw. I still use the 40D, it’s considered an old camera now, but it made good quality images when it was produced and still does today. "The photographer is the instrument not the camera" - Eve Arnold. An upgrade for me from the 40D would be a full frame DSLR but that would mean spending money on more lenses, and I like the lenses I have now. But its inevitable I will go full frame at some time. Anyway back to the LX100 2, the other main “upgrade” is a touch screen, another meaningless thing to me, why on earth would I want a touch screen on a compact camera, or any camera? It might cause problems accidentally changing settings? If I wanted a touch screen camera I could just use a “smart” phone camera. I think the EVF on the LX100 2 is slightly better, but on a compact it’s just as easy to use the screen for framing images. A real upgrade for me on the LX100 would have been a good dedicated lens hood, it does suffer from sun flare in the summer. 

 

 

Street Portraits Exhibition.

Street Portraits, varied and interesting characters I have captured while out and about doing my street photography on show @ my Pop up Gallery in Hull City Centre, (across the road from the Cheese Pub) Paragon Street. From the 2 July to 14 August 2018. Taken over the past few years in Hull, Leeds, London and N.Y. City

'Street Life' @ The Islington Arts Factory

Some of my prints at my exhibition. @ The Islington Arts Factory, London. People were coming in to look while I was still putting it up, it stretched round onto another wall when it was all up. On show now until the 27th May, 2016. Check it out if your in London.

 

Show of my street photography

From 10am 6th May to 7pm 27th May, 2016. An exhibition of street photography, capturing street images is my fav genre. This is a varied collection of my work, I chose 45 prints to include, it was a difficult choice as I have quite a few taken over the past few years in London, NY City, Birmingham, Sheffield, Bradford, Scarborough, Leeds and my home City of Hull