This opening segment is about my introduction to photography. The first photograph (entitled “when I was happiest”) is from Paris when I was doing street photography in the spirit of Charles Baudelaire. This is before I challenged my notion of aesthetics and I was happy shooting ironic/telling images from the city. The second image, again, is from this period of initiation. I was heavily influenced by Elliot Erwitt’s sense of humor and visual attraction and so the title “me and elliot” reflects this. Bang bang shoot shoot is the line from ‘happiness is a warm gun’ simply as a reference to the subjects pointing. There are connotations possible with violence and god but these are unnecessary.
When I resolved to pursue photography at university, ending my course in music, I went to a little camera shop in Embankment, London and picked up an old canon AV1. This image is from that first roll I snapped around the area. This picture symbolized the change of courses for me and has been important to me ever since.
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