Hello there

I’m a photographer based in the UK, with broad interests in travel, landscape, portraiture and still life. I mostly shoot digital at the moment but in the past have done a lot of analogue photography, particularly with alternative processes (wet collodion, cyanotype, kallitype) using plate and pinhole cameras. I’m a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS), don’t you know.

I enjoy making equipment that I use (such as pinhole cameras), and will occasionally post about that here. I also have a background in software development and enjoy graphic design, and may post about those topics from time to time too.

I mostly stay off social media these days, because it’s not very nice out there. You can contact me via email or carrier pigeon.

Geometric pattern at the tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah

I’m really intrigued by Islamic geometric patterns, having read the excellent books by Eric Broug and attempted to draw some of them myself. I spotted one particular tiled pattern on the internet that is frequently attributed to the Taj Mahal, so when I visited there in 2023 I kept an eye open for it. However, after several hours I hadn’t managed to find it anywhere. In fact, it wasn’t there at all. It’s a panel on the ornately tiled exterior of the tomb of I’timād-ud-Daulah, sometimes called the “Baby Taj”, which is also in Agra a few kilometers north-west of the Taj Mahal. The tomb was built between 1620 and 1628, and has walls of white marble from Rajhastan inlaid with mosaics and semi-precious stones. The building is often described as a “jewel box” and is considered an architectural stepping-stone between earlier Mughal buildings – which were primarily red sandstone – and the ubiquitous white marble of the Taj Mahal. ...

India - February 2026

These images are from a recent two-week business trip to India. I grabbed a few hours to visit the beach in Chennai and the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi, but a two-day holiday in Jodhpur at the end of the trip was my main opportunity to explore with a camera. I’ve visited Chennai several times in the past and have never really got to grips with it. This time I visited Edward Elliot’s Beach and the area around Besant Nagar. Elliot’s Beach is smaller and cleaner than the better-known Marina Beach and has more of a fairground atmosphere. There is a cluster of stalls in the centre of the beach where vendors sell seafood and roast corn on miniature furnaces, and people wander through the crowds selling candyfloss, bubble wands and offering horse rides through the surf. ...

Clifford Brown photographic collection

I am currently helping my father to sort through his photographic collection, getting it all catalogued and finding new homes for much of it. We keep finding more boxes, but currently the collection stands at 233 cameras, 69 lenses, 3 tripods, 14 cases, 28 flash guns and 48 other items! We haven’t even got to the collection of light meters yet. I’ve set up a new microsite for the collection at collection.guyjbrown.com. ...

Abbeydale Picture House

The Abbeydale Picture House is a semi-derelict 1920s cinema in the city of Sheffield, UK. These pictures date from 2005, when I was fortunate to be able to photograph the interior of the building over a period of 18 months or so. The images formed my Royal Photographic Society Fellowship (FRPS) panel. They are high dynamic range (HDR) photographs, constructed from a sequence of bracketed exposures. The HDR images were converted to monochrome and then digitally recoloured in Photoshop. ...

Wet collodion portraits

Portraits made with the wet collodion process. The images are made directly in the camera on glass (ambrotypes) or blackened metal plates (tintypes). I use a variety of cameras, ranging from a relatively modern 5″x4″ MPP technical camera to an 1880’s wooden whole plate camera. The lenses also vary; often a 180mm Zeiss Jena lens on the MPP, and a brass Petzval lens on the larger camera.