Welcome
I hope you enjoy the slideshow selection on this home page - the images are from what I call 'recent archives', shot on film and my early digital cameras and I wish I could say that I've got better over the years.
Like so many others, my early photography was inspired by my late father's bulging suitcase of holiday snaps - and a collection of broken folding cameras with names like 'Penguin'.
My first camera was a plastic one from Woolworths - not a million miles away from the lo-fi eastern imports that are so trendy today.
In the 1960's I worked in a Fulham backstreet photography-studio-come-sewing-machine-retailers and learned how not to do things.
Many years later I was fortunate to work for Private Eye Magazine and it was then that I bought my first SLR.
After a short period as a pro photographer in the late seventies I took few photographs until 1997, when a visit to Romania with a Welsh charity ( and a borrowed camera ) recharged my batteries.
In 1998-2000 I studied multimedia at South Thames College.
I have a group, 'Members' Room', on Flickr and I'm also a keen participant in the 'Guardian Camera Club'
monthly assignments.
Latest additions in the Gallery are Street Portraits and also a small set from Occupy London camp at St. Paul's Cathedral.
ALL IMAGES © ERIC HANDS AND MUST NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT CONSENT.
Like so many others, my early photography was inspired by my late father's bulging suitcase of holiday snaps - and a collection of broken folding cameras with names like 'Penguin'.
My first camera was a plastic one from Woolworths - not a million miles away from the lo-fi eastern imports that are so trendy today.
In the 1960's I worked in a Fulham backstreet photography-studio-come-sewing-machine-retailers and learned how not to do things.
Many years later I was fortunate to work for Private Eye Magazine and it was then that I bought my first SLR.
After a short period as a pro photographer in the late seventies I took few photographs until 1997, when a visit to Romania with a Welsh charity ( and a borrowed camera ) recharged my batteries.
In 1998-2000 I studied multimedia at South Thames College.
I have a group, 'Members' Room', on Flickr and I'm also a keen participant in the 'Guardian Camera Club'
monthly assignments.
Latest additions in the Gallery are Street Portraits and also a small set from Occupy London camp at St. Paul's Cathedral.
ALL IMAGES © ERIC HANDS AND MUST NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT CONSENT.