For me photography is about curiosity. It is about opening our eyes to the beauty that lies hidden in the everyday things around us. The patterns formed by a tattered and decaying shop sign, the flower like symmetry of an arrangement of café tables or the columns and iron lacework of a pier contrasted against a perfectly uniform sea and sky.

I don’t use Photoshop and other than some cropping I don’t manipulate my photographs in any way. I prefer to capture and print the image as it appears using natural light, distortion through reflection and unusual angles to stimulate new ways of looking at the world.

A focus on pattern, shape and form are also key elements of my collages which use incongruous combinations of fragments of magazine cuttings to create abstract images.

https://www.visualartnetwork.org.uk/members/member/329/Phil-Langstaff