David Miles
Elliot Erwitt, Don McCullin, Michael Kenna, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Robert Doisneau, Tim Rudman, Larry Bartlett, Tony Worobiek, Hugh Milsom, Ilford, friends at Brighton and Hove Camera Club, Bill Wisden for guidance towards an ARPS, Black and White Photography magazine, Creative Monochrome - now sadly expired after 13 years of inspirational black and white photography - Peter Miles for all those books and Mark Chimley for this website.
I have been fascinated by photography from the year dot and showed my dedication in the 50's by painfully lugging home a boxful of gear (Gnome enlarger etc.) half-a-mile from the house of my Youth Club Leader. For four decades I dabbled without getting far. Six years ago I saw the light, so to speak, and luckily found more time, some dedicated darkroom space ad some extra funds. Now I concentrate wholly on monochrome photography, trying to capture light, form, texture and moments, at the same time enjoying the challenge and pleasure of Black and White printing on silver.
I use, almost exclusively, Contax Equipment: Aria and a selection of prime lenses between 21mm and 135mm. Very occasionally I use a Mamiya 7 and 80mm lens. I like the versatility offered by the 35mm formats; preferred films are FP4, HP5 and Delta 400.
Squatting in my darkroom, I print primarily on Ilford Multigrade VC and Fibre. I enjoy the wet darkroom far too much to enter the wondrous world of digital photography. Anyway, I suffer from fat-finger syndrome and computer phobia: Computers seem to sense that I am not friendly.
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