Hello! I'm Janet.

 

I love taking pictures.

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I’ve been capturing images since I was first given a camera when I was eighteen. It was as if all the drawing and painting that I was never able to do was suddenly available to me. And what I wanted to get down on paper I now could.

Took me quite a while to realise that this was something I could 'do'.

When I look at things, or people, or a scene, it has something to say. Not that I hear things talking to me, I'm not admitting to that! 

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But... There is more than just a picture in a picture. 

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Photography is emotional.

It’s specific, raw, fun, open, complicated, and, today, available to everyone. I started with my favourite HP5 Black and white film, and I’m still more comfortable with black and white. It has a different truth.

I spent years working in photographic labs and studios. The possibilities of an image are endless. But there is a unique joy to be had when your image is your own, and the constraints of a job don’t tie you up.

Moments captured that have their own story, their own emotion.

It’s proper freedom of expression. In sharing that it has made me take a leap of faith, to let my work been looked at, examined, judged.

 

But sharing them can be a scary process.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.​...