Thanks for taking time to visit this website.

My aim when I am out and about with my camera is to capture the world as it really is - unaffected by me pointing a camera at it. Most of the pictures on this site are taken candidly. The only exception is the "Love Boat Rejects" gallery. This is just a collection of pictures taken by me and my colleagues of passengers onboard American and Italian based cruiseships throughout the 1990's. It is fair to say that candid photography has become something of a rarity in the world of contemporary photography. Most galleries and publications favour images that don't feature people in them at all or if they do then they are contrived (portraiture aside). I could go on all day about why I think that this is the case (I wrote an 8,000 word essay about it) but the best thing is to keep following my instincts and stick two fingers up to those who snear at the kind of photography that I love. I would be happy to hear from anyone who has thoughts about the state of modern day photography (I'm not one for blogging etc though).

Please send me an e-mail if there's anything you'd like to know about the pictures on this website. I'll even tell you why it said 'DIE' in the Miami sky in 1991. I reply to all mail. If I don't get back to you then it means that there's been a problem with the link (my e-mail is ianhughes11@hotmail.com).

Ian Hughes

(Brighton, March 2008)

Technical bit...

Most of the pictures on this website were shot on 35mm Fuji film with a Canon AE1 camera that I got for my 18th birthday and still carry about today (aged 38). For the last three years I have mostly shot 6 x 7 format Fuji film on my Mamiya 7 camera (see London Trilogies gallery). My main concern about digital photography is the idea of pictures being deleted on a whim that might become useful at a later date. I still prefer the picture quality of film cameras to those from digital files but I accept that I will be shooting mostly digital pictures in the years ahead.