I have been photographing for more than 20 years. I am drawn to making photographs of things that are challenging or difficult to capture (astrophotography, extreme macro, ferrofluid structures etc).
Since the first of the lockdowns I have been buying and using a series of 1960s - 1990s research microscopes. These have been configured with polarising filters, and homemade and taped and glued photo tubes and adapters, and used to allow my camera to capture the wonders of the shapes, patterns and wild colours of crystals of various substances (often sugar alternative sweeteners) in polarised light.
After refining the process, and being recommended endlessly that I should have an exhibition or make a book, this project has evolved from an interesting photographic path into a proper artistic foray. A commercial gallery in London offered to show 16 large Chromaluxe printed images in a successful joint exhibition called Polychromo in Notting Hill, London in March 2023. Subsequently, a set of my photographs was awarded Fine Art Photographer of the Year in the 2023 International Photography Awards (IPA) in New York in October 2023.
