Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

The representation of the god of the night: Tescatlipoca, the Knife of Obsidian. While listening to Lila Downs' " Mano Negra" from her 'Balas y Chocolate' album

An image that built itself in the late hours in the dark...

A murder of silhouettes: a collections of monochrome, semi-abstract images.

I saw these spring onions and had to do something about it.

As I went by the Royal Academy, the light in the courtyard caught my eye and the street light in front of St Martins on the Lane...

As part of reducing my colour output and exploring high contrast dark images, here a sample from the dry lands near Nijar, Almeria

Referencing religion, following my previous image of Archangel Selaphiel...

5 nudes attempting a carbon print effect with black and white film

I decided to move away from my confort zone and take photographs of people along the Thames south side, although there were crowds, I could not see them, my eye went for what I can see.