SHOT FROM THE HIP
Stop the World, I want to get off I have always been fascinated by photos, with their ability to hold a frozen moment in time and yet open a tiny window back to that quantum realm of untarnished memory. With the advent of digital photography, the floodgates opened on my ability to be much less choosy and precious over what I could shoot - the costs of film and development were removed and the scales fell from my eyes as to what was possible and to a degree, permissable. My first real camera was a Canon Sureshot and I marvelled at its autofocus ability and spent whole rolls of film shoving the camera down holes, over walls, in windows, with casual abandon, not knowing what I might find when the prints finally arrived in their glossy envelope. In 2013, after receiving a redundancy payment from a longstanding and stultifyingly dull job, I spent a small chunk on a digital camera of my own, a Samsung NX1000. Bought primarily for its looks and having the abil...