Posts from the category Documentary photography

  • All Staff

    Black and white images from previous work trips out to Zürich, Basel and Neuchâtel.

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  • Letham in the Snow

    We spent much of the Christmas and New Year break in Letham, a small town in Angus, Scotland, where Jo grew up. Just after New Year, we took Archie, the family dog, for a walk around the town and Jo showed me places from her childhood as the evening set in and more snow fell.

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  • Street Parade, Zürich (2005)

    A gallery from the 2005 techno- and rave parade through the streets of Zürich, Switzerland.

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  • Chalk Farm Tube Station, London

    One of my pictures in 1993 was of the unique tiling at Chalk Farm on the Northern Line, late one evening.

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  • Content being shifted

    As is pretty common for me, I have once again decided to shift things around here at Permanent Tourist.

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  • Smogging

    One of my Gran’s endearing terms was “smogging” (which the rest of us know as “snogging”).

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  • Street Scene, Tenby, Wales

    A great moment as a family’s dog can barely contain himself on the way to the beach.

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  • Brent and Marta’s wedding

    Starting with a long journey to the Aeolian Islands and pre-wedding drinks on a tempestuously windy hotel terrace, Jo and I had a great time at my oldest friend Brent’s wedding to his Italian sweetheart, Marta.

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  • The (Photo) Hunters Return

    Cracking photo by my mum, of my dad, me and Jo on the Nufenenpass last weekend.

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  • Bathing

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  • Sunburned knees

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  • All Hail Summer

    Heavy, violent storms are sweeping across central Switzerland in the evenings at the moment, with the worst one bringing lumps of hail the size of chicken eggs. The hail was falling so heavily and lying so thick on the streets, that it was still around the following morning in Interlaken, where the damage was most

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  • FliCHr at Festival de la Cité

    More of my photos from Saturday’s meet-up of Swiss Flickr members at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne are online here.

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  • Salle de Versailles

    More photos from yesterday’s Giessbach Meeting in Interlaken are online at the German-language website of the local newspaper.

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  • The Scruffy Professor

    Going against the “no photography” rules in the National Portrait Gallery, I simply had to ask this man to pose for a portrait. As we walked down the stairs together, he told me that he had stopped off in London on his way home to America after a month-long tour of India, where he had

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  • The Burning Bushes

    More from this series – with Jo, Bruno, Nick and Ilona at Uetliberg and in Zürich over the weekend – in my flickr.com photo stream.

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  • The end of the season

    The café/restaurant at the end of the pier in Bournemouth, taken on a Sunday evening.

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