If I look at my image making process as a whole, I have recognized that there is a sense of English eccentricity within my recent work. The daily ritual of walking around the New York streets with a large mahogany box camera on a full size tri-pod makes for a very ‘English’ approach to the photographic process. It is not only that the final image has a European feel to it but also that my thought processes, as they have developed over the past three years, have also effected the aesthetic that I am trying to achieve. The way in which I now approach the work has more of an air of ‘ceremony’ and ‘ritual’, than the frantic almost ‘blind snapping’ of the ‘conventional’ tourist stereotype. In short, I have enjoyed adopting an almost C18th Englishman taking the ‘Grand Tour’ approach and the resulting images have obviously been affected in some way.