Peter Aitchison Derbyshire, United Kingdom
I am a travel photographer with over 40 years experience. My work is very real, never contrived or retouched, only using natural light and careful composition. I'm never happier then when in the chaos of a new city searching for new images. I create my own limited edition Giclée prints which are mounted and signed. I continues to travel and add to the collection regularly.
Having spent many years shooting film, when it finally came time to adopt digital I decided that I would try and work as much as possible just as I would have with film. That was 15 years ago and I think I have managed to do this ... My cameras are set up in the most basic way with no tricks or filters involved. I typically will only take no more than 6 shots of a subject, just as I did with film, of course with street photography its often one shot. I do not use flash or any other artificial light sources and am a great believer if the light is not right its not right ... if the subject is static I will go back to it later to see how its changed. Street portraits are a real passion and when I see a likely subject I will approach and often language is a problem but I find showing the camera and a smile works wonders:) I will spend time with the person and will move them into the right light if required. I will then sit with them showing images on my camera which they often find fascinating and is a real joy to me.
I print all of my work on fine art paper creating Giclée prints which are mounted in museum quality board, these are numbered, signed and stamped. I continue to travel as much as I can and cannot wait to see what is around the next corner.
