My career as an art historian has always involved photography largely as a means of factual recording. Alongside this I have had a fascination with cities and the people who live and work in them. I feel a compulsion to record the flux of the city and the chance, unexpected encounters with the ordinary that become in turn extraordinary fragments of life. In this respect I am influenced by the idea of the nineteenth century ‘flaneur’, surrealism and the corpus of twentieth century street photographers. On the whole my approach is not that of the posed picture but of the stolen moment, extracted from reality and transposed into the frozen, still image.

Most of my working life has been involved in photography, with experience in Theatre, Advertising, Industrial, Commercial, Architectural Photography and the production of Training films.
Over twenty-five years experience in full time photography teaching; at the Leicester collage of Art, Leicester Polytechnic and Leicester South Fields Collage.  Eight years as photography course tutor to Loughborough University Summer School.   Leader of photography workshops.  Regular guest speaker to Photographic Societies in Leicestershire and the midlands.
My personal photographic work has had the benefit of a broad based background and has recently become centred around the Landscape and Urban Landscape, Documentary Coverage, Street Photography and People in the Workplace.

I inherited an interest in photography from my father with a plate camera, progressing through Brownie Box, Twin Lens Reflex, 35mm SLR to DSLR today.
Topics to start with were the usual family and holiday snaps! Plus record shots of events.
Nowadays, I am more likely to take photographs with a theme; a development since joining the PhotoImage21 group, which I thoroughly enjoy.

My background is in Textiles but this has never influenced my photography except for a few photographs of garments for brochures.

I have lived in Leicester for 28 years, having originated from Essex. I work in Leicester as a social worker.

I first became interested in photography at the age of 15 when I was given a Pentax SV as a Christmas present. I have always enjoyed taking portraits but more recently have discovered an interest in rural and urban landscape.

I joined PhotoImage 21 as a result of my rekindled interest in photography. Some of my work is exhibited in the Ale Loft above the Barley Mow in Granby Street, Leicester 

Bob graduated from Nene University College with an honours degree in Graphic Communication and a postgraduate  diploma in Visual Communication from UCE, Birmingham.
Photography had been a passion for many years .. originally in taking and developing B&W images but he then switching to digital photography in the late 1990’s. This has enabled him to respond to a wider range of subjects … images which work in colour often don’t work in black and white and vice versa. Colour photography and digital manipulation has provided a whole new dimension to his work enabling him to respond in various ways to the natural environment  … a sense of beauty being just one of them.

Tony Jukes has been involved in photography for some 30 years.  His work is mainly in the field of Social Documentary, though he has recently been working with portraiture and landscape.  Tony has exhibited with Image 21 in Leicestershire and at venues in Warwickshire.  He is currently following an MA in Photography at De Montfort University, Leicester.

After a long break from photography I now find myself with a new enthusiasm for creating images. One of my main interests is in digital imagery and the diverse effects that can be obtained by combining multiple images together. 
I’m still experimenting with styles and genres; equine photography is and always has been a very rewarding subject for me. More recently I have been taking studio portraits, which is a new experience for me, one that I have enjoyed immensely. In the future I hope to increase my knowledge and experience in all fields of photography.