Photography is in every part of our lives,  It records our first days of

life, Our school-days, Our Holidays , Our friends and family,

Our loves and losses, Our failures, Our triumphs.

It reminds us just how fleeting life is,  And gives us an opportunity

just to contemplate those things of beauty we rush by without regard.

.And you only have to look at an image of a lost loved relative

to know the power of these frozen moments of time.

 

In fact it is almost impossible to imagine what life could have been like

before the cameras ability to record our world and our place in it.

The effect of these stilled and silent images cleared of the clutter

of movement and sound,

From the first time I stood in the dark room and watched the image

escaping from the blank whiteness of the paper. 

I have been hooked. In love of the silent poetry of photography.

 

My interest in all visual images,  Has been a life long obsession,

This is the way I look at the world.  For some it's music that best

describes there feelings, With me it is the image,  And my world is the

visual,  My church is the art gallery,  The woods, The expressions in a

face,   And the tone of the body. To see the beauty in the colour of the rusty

nail hit by a shaft of the morning light. And delight in the shape of the

shadow it casts.

 

And with these gallery's I hope to share my love of the visual image.

 

 

William P Allom:              Photographer and Visual Obsessive.