Manchester Prints

Photographer: me, me, me

First published photographs were Northern Soul club shots, taken at Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino, and published in Blues and Soul when I was still at school. Around the same time I also managed to write a column on rare 12” singles for the music paper Black Echoes.
In the 80’s I sold my first words and pictures essay, on the work of Mother Teresa’s Sisters in Calcutta, to SHE magazine. In the late 80s I was proposed for membership of the National Union of Journalists by the late-great Malcolm Muggeridge.
Over the years I’ve had work used in publications around the world, including The Traveller, The Times, (what used to be) Tennis Magazine and Tennis World in the UK, the WTA’s ‘Inside Women’s Tennis’, the BBC’s ‘A Question of Sport’, and any number of travel and general magazines.
For one particular issue of Tennis Magazine (this has to be unique), I did the cover photo, Miami tournament photos, tournament report, instruction article and also a player interview.
Throughout the early 1990’s I had my own words and photos monthly series in top German tennis magazine TENNIS REVUE and I was a finalist in New York-based magazine Tennis Week’s 'Great American Tennis Writing Awards'. Recent Manchester and Blackpool photos on this site were featured in Lancashire Life and other North West magazines.
My best work has come through following my instincts and this site is one individual’s pursuit of originality and photographic excellence, in a world in which narrowness of vision and mediocrity are too often settled for...and, more worryingly, actually celebrated... vive la différence

Photography: A Working Philosophy
‘ Can you do justice to that which lies before you?’
A testing question, not only for photographers, but for writers and artists working in other fields. Just as good writing is far more than pages of randomly assembled text or a flimsy first draft, good photography sits high above a paparazzo snoopshot, plain good luck or a lack of photographic vision dressed up in contrived bla-bla.
Light, action, people and place are four areas of the still image in which I am much practiced and well-traveled. But photography only begins to soar above the artless stock image when the photographer achieves a harmony of two or more of these elements.

When you can absorb all four elements into a well-timed project and imbue it with some imagination, you have the potential to turn basic harmony into a two-dimensional symphony that will defy time, and create a print with worth far beyond face value, and both worth and value will increase with time.
Do I have both the heart and skills to do justice to that which lies before me?
Can I find humour in the dour and timeless beauty in everyday settings?
Snatch memorable and unique moments from a fleeting movement or glance?
Find angles unseen and use the light of seasons like colours in a brushman’s palette?
Search out celebration in the uncelebrated and capture two beauties—beauty is and beauty does—in the boundless expanses of the human spirit?
Tall order. But such is my constant endeavour.

words and photos © imagesbyevvy.com. No unauthorized use

Prints: My eye, your wall
Good photography is about seeing: more precisely, it’s about the individuality and fullness of each photographer’s vision.
Ever since I had my first slides printed onto Ilford’s legendary Cibachrome photographic paper, I have been aware of what a quality print looks like. However, I never had the patience for the limitations of the darkroom but the digital age puts output in the hands of the photographer. Starting from the eye of this beholder, through the world’s best 35mm lens system, onto predominantly Fuji Velvia or Provia film, and into the computer at up to 10,000 dpi/16 bits per channel, these photos have been passionately envisioned, obsessively sought and painstakingly prepared, for outputting to some of the world's best fine art and photographic papers.

Great photos and prints usually take much effort, planning and imagination: as such, they deserve to be seen. Prints for walls demand a much greater quality of image than your run-of-the-mill 'stock' shot, and fine art photographic prints for walls are predominantly what I shoot film and digit for.

If the photo has a number and/or a title, it is probably available as a fine art photographic print.

These are printed on fully archival (around 75 years) metallic and hi-gloss Ilford 'Ciba' photographic papers, and also on 100% cotton fine art papers.
Other media available to order, but only when I believe the quality of media matches the quality of the idea and the finished image.

All prints are numbered, limited edition and come either framed, frame-ready in stamped / signed mount board, or in stamped and signed two-piece presentation box.