A five-day trip to Benalmadena in southern Spain allowed me to indulge in two quite different types of photography. The Costa del Folk...

Toyah Ann Willcox, singer and actress, whose career spans more than thirty years, has had 8 Top 40 singles, released over 20 albums,...

I'm still undecided whether my night out with the good and the great of the folk music glitterati would have been better as a guest...

Like many, I've always thought of Ostend as a passing-through sort of place - a port, a terminus. But having spent a few days there over...

Swelling the population tenfold for a week in June, the horsetraders, travellers and gypsies descend once again upon...

There wasn't a chance of getting out for almost a week. The car had completely disappeared under the drifts and the temperatures were...

A week in Blackpool. Not everyone's cup of tea, but a commission to photograph the 2013 festival of circus, magic and variety was right...

Twice a year in the heart of Whitby, the town which spawned the Dracula myth, dozens of goths descend to celebrate in a bizarre costume...

As the dawn breaks, the sun highlights the intricacies of the rocks beneath. Well, not really, just in my head. This latest montage was...

I recently subscribed to a photography networking site. The idea is to upload a picture per day, and it has to have been taken on that...

An interesting one day photo-shoot with Marge, Doris and Mary, collectively known as Granny Turismo, a street theatre trio who amaze...

Inspired by Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong, and amazed at the similarities between the main character’s experience of the trenches during the...

In 1985 I lived at one end of Tenter Hill, a weaver’s terrace comprising five houses. At the other end lived Mr Hawley. He lived alone,...

It’s 1974 somewhere in the east end of London not long after decimalisation. In a tiny shop, sandwiched between a butcher and poulterer...

Comedian, radio presenter and author Mike Harding is writing a book about how to tie north country flies and needed a hand in...

Inspired by the phenomenal work of sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, I set about taking my own photographs for a series of front cover images...

If you grew up in the 1950s and 60s you’ll no doubt have a drawer somewhere with a couple of old badges buried at the back. Mine live in...

“You’re a proper band if you’ve got a tour t-shirt.” For over ten years the Frances Doonan Band, a flexible line-up of Geordie and...