Peter Brindley photography

I was no more than 10 years old when I became fascinated by the magic of photography and processed my first roll of film. But my background and upbringing was such that even considering the arts as a career rather than as a hobby was out of the question.

Throughout my working career I maintained and developed my interest in photography, with a basic small black and white darkroom at home. And I re-equipped this to professional standard in advance of retirement in 1996, determined that I should use the time released to take photography seriously.

In 1998 I surprised myself by winning a prize in an art exhibition; since then I have won a number of other prizes, including the first prize for the best overall entry at the Margaret Harvey Gallery Hertfordshire Open Exhibition in 2002.

My overriding concern is to discover the ways in which photography can be a legitimate art form - to discover what factors can lift the humble and ubiquitous photographic image from being mere illustration, or a visual record of some event, person or place, into realms where it can be seen as art, as something which transcends the merely factual. In pursuit of this concern I am constantly on the look out for ways of doing - and saying - something new.

In terms of content, a major focus of my work to date has been an attempt to record for posterity my own private perceptions of the aspirations of today’s world, and this is reflected in many of the examples available on this site.