I have been taking and making pictures for well over thirty years. In that time my own work has been mainly thematic , working in photographs as a series. I have a relatively specific approach to what I choose to make pictures of , and I rely heavily on atmospherics, dramatic lighting and strong storylines to convey an individual style. A lot of my personal work is taken either in isolated, out of the way places, or of buildings and landscapes that are well past their ‘sell-by’ date.

A lot of the work is monochrome , and for some of this I still use the darkroom as well as the digital process, depending on the ‘feel’ I want from the finished print.

I hold two RPS Fellowships, one for pictorial images taken of the mill towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire and the other for Darkroom printing. I belong to the ARENA group of photographers and am a member of The London Salon. A book of my monochrome images depicting Britain’s Urban Landscape was published in 1993. There have been a number of one-man exhibitions of my work held in London, Dublin, Birmingham, Reading, Manchester, Gloucester and Belfast.

Now semi-professional, my work revolves around teaching at college or on workshops and at seminars all over the UK , also in the USA and Europe. I worked for fifteen years as a tutor for Jessops retail outlet, and more recently for Permajet in Stratford- on-Avon or as a photographic club lecturer giving talks and lectures to societies and specialist groups all over the U.K.

Leigh Preston FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB