Have started to take slightly more formal portraits. And am combining this with my interest in interiors. I'm particularly attracted to this sort of indoor natural light - the Vermeer / Tom Hunter kind of effect.
I also want to extend this idea of portraying what people might think of as more 'ordinary life'. The Sunday Times magazine today featured yet another Magnum anthology / retrospective, based on yet another Magnum compilation book. While all the pictures are brilliant, I can't help feeling the moment has passed. How many more times do we need to see Elliot Erwitt's whimsicial pictures of dogs, and how many more times do we have to see HCB's pictures from the 30s or even Alex Webb's picture of arrested Mexicans on the US / Mexico border, however great they are. And more to the point, when is photojournalism going to escape from this campaigning, self-consciously progressive ideology? Why should this style of taking pictures always be hijacked by people with a political agenda, and always an agenda that is critical of the same old subjects. From the Spanish Civil War onwards, this type of photojournalism seems to have taken only one side. Maybe that is why it has found itself so sidelined in recent years, and its most famous agency is reduced to publishing these endless retrospectives of better days.