Photography by Taff

I was born in Swansea, South Wales and unsucessfully studied metalurgy at Leeds University.

I started taking photographs in the early 80's and am completly self taught.

Since 1987 I have lived in a converted coach as a New Traveller and as such have over 10,000 photographs of the lifestyle including the festivals,like Glastonbury and The Big Green Gathering,in which I have been involved.

For the past 5 years I have been static around Bath, living in a caravan on site, and documented the dance and music scene both in nightclubs and at house/free parties.

I still travel, in my caravan, to work on festivals during the summer months.

My photographs have been shown as slide shows at venues on the festival sites as well as at places such as Glastonbury Assembly Rooms, Windows Arts Centre (now Invention Arts) and TheHat&Feather pub in Bath.

A number of my photographs have also been published. One as the back cover of a C.D. for a popular local band, "Baka Beyond", several in the free publication "Travellers Times" from the Rural Media Company, as well as several used as advertising flyers and posters for The Bell and The Hat and Feather pubs.

All the original photographs have been taken on 35mm colour transparency film, mainly Fujichrome, and Nikon and Olympus SLRs fitted with either 35mm or 24mm wide angle lenses.

None of the photographs have been cropped or manipulated.

A very BIG THANK YOU to all the friends, families
and strangers who have let me photograph them.

Live long and prosper.

Taff