Welcome
Please note that this homepage slideshow tends to crop some of the images...go to the galleries if you would like to see the full frame !
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. I've included a few images from this trip on this site.
In 1998-2000 I studied multimedia at South Thames College.
I have finally embraced the digital age with Nikon and Samsung DSLR's but get nostalgic every time I scan an old negative. I still have 35mm and 120 film cameras. They should get out more.
I hope you enjoy the small selection from my ongoing Shoreditch Chronicles project - and also a glimpse of life at Private Eye Magazine, most of it shot in the 70s.
Most recently I've been working on a local arts project for the London Transport Museum, documenting life past and present along the route of the new East London Line.
The pictures can be seen at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden.
Thanks for dropping by - feedback always welcome.
ALL IMAGES © ERIC HANDS AND MUST NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT CONSENT.
