To me this image of a girl at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, edges on surrealism. The combination of the textures and imperfections of film, with the large depth of field highlights the patterns and shapes that fill the frame.

Its a photograph I can’t wait to print big, really big.

This image is part of my London Project, a series of documentary street photographs.

Working in the City of London is apparently quite stressful. Respite is often provided by smoking tobacco filled cancer sticks, can you tell I am not a smoker? I don’t understand the enjoyment out of it, but maybe I don’t know what I am missing.

Of course, there is a chance that these people actually enjoy their stress filled lives and smoking is just another habit, like flicking your hair, or taking a picture.

This image is part of my London Project, a series of documentary street photographs.

Over the last few months I’ve been working away on this blog, making it look right, making sure it integrates with Facebook, and making sure I do everything in my power to not get my blog out there. Well enough I say, its time to push my blog on others and share the images I’ve created!

During the coming months I’ll be posting 12 images as part of my London Street Photography series. I’ll go on to explain my goals and intentions of the blog, why it truly started and where I hope it will take me. I’ll talk about my strengths and weaknesses in photography, and how I intend to build on them. I’ll share inspirational images and words I find, in the hope you’ll enjoy them to. Most of all I will continually develop the site based on the reception, you the readers give it so please comment and share your views.

I look forward to sharing the future with you here, and hope that you stick around. So if you have not already please sign up for email updates below, add the site to your RSS reader and find out more about me and like me on facebook. Thanks!

What do you see? I see two hardened youths, warmed by their beer jackets out on the prowl, contrasting with the old couple, warmed by true insulation and love. I wonder if the couple had their day before they met, prowling Oxford’s streets hunting to attract a mate.  Maybe they showed a bit of skin as part of their courtship rituals?

One can only imagine.

I’d love to hear what you see….

Oxford university fashion at its finest

My name is Peter Grant, I am 24, living in Oxford, England, working full time as a Design Engineer for Williams F1 and this is my blog about my development as a photographer.

It all started with my Dad’s Panasonic FX30. It turned out however, that he wasn’t much of a photographer, to my gain. After a while, I bought my own Canon 400D and kept it for 3 years. I took it almost everywhere with me; up mountains, on trains, through stations, underground and up in the sky.

Studying and living in Oxford gave me no excuses for creating images. Overtime It was clear that I preferred candid photographs taken on the street. Being adventurous, or mad, I sold all my digital equipment and bought a Leica M6, some film and a scanner. Having never shot or developed film before, it was a jump into the unknown. I feel the results speak for themselves.

Having graduated, I spent a year gardening, volunteering and making photographs. I then got a job and sold everything again as I couldn’t justify the time and cost of film. I decided to buy myself a Fuji X100,  which leads to now…. 

Sometimes a filthy habit makes a gritty image.

Loc: Clubbing in Oxford, England.

Nobody is perfect, and nobody deserves to be perfect. Nobody has it easy, everybody has issues. You never know what people are going through. So pause before you start judging, criticizing, or mocking others. Everybody is fighting their own unique war.