So, yeah, corny title I know. But it feels fitting. A new direction, with hopefully new clarity.

I think my photography needs are changing. I still love photographing performance and performers, but I fell out of a loop and didn’t rush to get back in it. I see opportunities that once I would have chased and I have fleeting regret and then it passes. I’m not sure that world fits me very well these days, it’s like we fell out a little and now we shyly wave at one another from a distance!!

But people are still my passion, I just want to do something differently. I want to photograph people, exactly as they are, where they are, with no artifice or agenda. But I don’t want to steal those shots, I’m not the photographer with the long lense on the other side of the road. If I’m not brave enough to ask for someone’s permission, then I don’t deserve their face in my photo. That means I miss things, it means that even when I ask sometimes people say no, and no means no - for me it has to. I’m searching for what this means, sometimes the search is worth it in itself, and I’m not sure where the end point is, but for now I know I need to be braver and kinder and more open to asking for the images I see.

Because I don’t like posts without photos, here follows some beautiful souls who I met on some recent travels round Cambodia & Vietnam…..