It’s been two years since I started self-studying documentary photography and photojournalism, and this is only my third blog post. However, I have finished stage one.

In 2021, UK consumers drank 2.5 million litres or 10 million bottles of water per day. That’s a lot of plastic. It’s great that you’re all drinking so much water; good hydration is important. But when you buy bottled water, you are driving a chain that’s having a significant impact on our environment.

My wife steps in and shuts me up, which considering the circumstances and the twenty-five-foot drop behind me, is fair enough.

At some point in mid-2021, I was feeling a little discouraged by not being able to work on the projects I'd been planning. So, I turned my attention to improving my knowledge about the field of documentary storytelling in general. This is the first blog post documenting that process.

I've been self-studying to improve my knowledge of documentary photography.

I've been building resources that fit the course outline of a Photojournalism and Documentary Photography BA course. I'll update this page as I progress.

Tony and Vicki Harris have been on a journey that would change their lives, seeing Tony giving away all their money and most of his clothes. It would lead them to start a group that would feed up to 50 people, six nights a week, during the height of the pandemic.

An ongoing list of online courses, talks, books and documentaries relating to documentary work, documentary photography and photojournalism.

'What is AG23?' I hear you ask. AG23 is a collaboration between Dan Milnor of Blurb Books and Rick Elder of Beyond Clothing. They describe it as a project "to promote understanding through dialogue and art".

In a world that feels more divided than at any time that I can remember anything that promotes understanding can only be a good thing.

I started to write a post about Project Planning. As I go along, I realise I'm really describing Idea Generation, which feeds into Project Planning. So let's start there. It's important to say there's no right way to do this, and this is my way.

The Darnley Pharmacy now dispenses prescriptions from a window. This saves patients needing to enter the shop, reducing the risk to them and the staff.

One of the discoveries in the archaeological strata of paper perched on top of my now nonfunctioning office printer was this issue of a Chilean magazine called Cyclo. They published some of the images from my time documenting the Full Gas track cycling winter series in their launch issue.

It's one of those moments when the world snaps into focus. I'm standing in the National Gallery looking Van Gogh's, a wheatfield with cypresses. As I look closely on the left-hand side, I notice the paint doesn't go to the edge. You can see the canvas, now darkened with age, showing through.

I'm not working today. I didn't want to be off; not that I particularly want to be working either; however, we all want to feel in charge of our own schedule. When you work for someone else, you lose some of that control.

Thoughts after returning from attending the 70th Missouri Photo Workshop.

Another in my series documenting Gravesend pubs that have recently closed. I’ve generally been trying to photograph the pubs at night, that seems the time when a pub should look most alive, highlighting those that are no longer. But a found myself walking past The Old Sun camera in hand, and it seemed too good an opportunity to miss. I might still come back one evening.

The New Inn can be traced back to 1780. The pub with the shops adjoining had previously been the home of the Holker family where, in April 1734, Dr Holker entertained the Prince and Princess of Orange (daughter of George II) after their marriage when they were weather-bound on their return to Holland.

On Thursday last, four well-dressed men arrived at the Globe Tavern, Gravesend, by a London Steam Packet. At their request they were accommodated with a bedroom and a sumptuous dinner, for which they paid and left for London the same afternoon. After they were gone, Mr. Lott, the proprietor, discovered that his bedroom had been broken into, and the bureau plundered of a pocket book containing £160.

The Call Boy was built in 1953, replacing the demolished Assembly Rooms pub that was on this site before it. In 2008 the brewery Shepherd Neame closed The Call Boy along with many other pubs in the area.

There have, at some time, been sixteen pubs in Gravesend with the suffix ‘Shades’ to their name. Manor Shades was the last when it closed on 31st December 2012. There were also ‘Shades’ pubs across south-east London and Kent.

The Railway Tavern opened in 1881 and was tied to the Meux’s Brewery, it still features the original Meux glazed tiles. After 129 years of trading, it closed in 2010 and then reopened in 2011 as D-Ream. D-Ream lasted just over a year, closing in October 2012.