Introduction
The photographs in this book were taken over a twelve-month period, from June 2024 to June 2025, in Nottingham city centre. The intention behind this project was to capture the fleeting, often unnoticed moments that shape everyday life in the urban environment — the quiet rhythms, the passing gestures, the subtle interplay of people and place.
My approach to photography embraces spontaneity and chance. Rather than seeking out decisive moments, I prefer to respond to what the city offers in its own time. This way of working allows for a more intuitive connection with the environment — a kind of visual wandering — where composition, light, and subject emerge in unpredictable ways.
This body of work was heavily influenced by Saul Leiter’s Early Color, which revealed to me how reflection, shadow, motion, blur, and depth of field can transform the mundane into something curious, even dreamlike. These techniques became a way of exploring not just what is seen, but how it is seen.
The images that follow are less about Nottingham as a place, and more about moments that happen within it — moments that feel both familiar and strange, suspended between the real and the imagined. I hope they encourage you to look a little longer, and perhaps a little differently, at the everyday.
