The pictures below were taken years ago, when I was living in Durban. Although I’ve never surfed, I’ve always been fascinated by the sport. I didn’t have a long enough lens to capture conventional action shots from the beach, so instead used to take shots from the pier, using slow shutter speeds and colour negative film. These are scans from some of the old negs.

This is an old photograph of a club rugby match, taken many years ago when I lived in Durban on South Africa’s east coast. It was one of a series that I took of various sports, experimenting with slow shutter speeds to emphasise the movement and sense of speed.

I obviously wasn’t using digital in those days and the original was shot using colour negative film. For this image, I copied the colour print using my Canon 450D camera. I occasionally photograph artwork for a client, for which I convert my sitting-room into a basic studio, using two studio flashes with umbrellas.

The image, in addition to the blur from panning the camera, has been digitally simplified.