brought up south of glasgow, on the west coast of scotland, and born 20
years too late to enjoy the 50’s first time around – gordon headed
south to study photography and printmaking in the midlands.
inspired by such luminaries as ben shahn, andy warhol, david bailey
and ansell adams during his college years, he graduated from
university and went on to produce an underground jazz/blues fanzine,
which was influenced by the design of neville brody, the photography
francis wolff and william claxton... whilst generally encouraging
readers to listen to blue note, stay up all night and generally live a
cool hepcat-lifestyle.
a musician friend gave him the impetus to get involved in digital photography, even though this sometimes means using vintage 50's cameras specially adapted to produce authentic imagery. "like looking through a time machine!" he once said. Lately though – he has been involved in working with complex black+white images of vintage autos and aircraft, or spending time in the studio recreating classic Hollywood styled portraiture. Influences include - vintage clothing, old vespa scooters, hollywood style photography, accoustic blue note jazz, gnarly oldschool blues, ray-bans, rockabilly, vorticism/futurism/suprematism, jack daniels on ice, hurrell, ruth harriet louise, 1950s ephemera, old levis, murder ballads, film noir, atomic style, jack kerouac, art-deco, black coffee, yamaha dragstar classic four motorcycles, mid-50s and early 1960s style...
to date, various cameras used: kodak brownie, polaroid spectra, lomo smena 8M, olympus trip, praktica mtl3, zeiss ikon/ikoflex, kodak colorsnap bantam, canon 400D with sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 lens, sigma 10-20 mm F4-5.6 lens, olympus XA2, lubitel 166B, disposable cameras or an olympus SP510UZ, various cokin filters.