Hi yo Silver

Who was that masked man, anyway?

Instead of silver bullets I use silver salts to make images. I am sorting boxes of prints, which I like to call my archives, a lot has been lost as I moved around the world – I know several boxes of my exhibition material were put into a garage sale in Virginia USA years ago – I would love to see them again – some galleries, a lot of magazines and a few agents have kept my work and lost it or kept themselves warm with it.

Luckily I still have most of my negatives, but nearly everything before 1979 was lost in a fire at my home in Cambridge – probably a good thing. Here is one of my earliest surviving photographs, there is a story behind it, we had an emergency and were diverted to Ankara – I misheard what was announced – they said don’t get of the plane – so I got off and the Turkish guard posed for this snap, he asked me to post him a copy, I lost his address so, if you are that guard, email me and I will send it on.