I’ve been photographing on the streets of London, and in a few other cities across the UK and Europe, since 2021 — first with a 50mm lens and later with a 28mm. Over time, for a range of reasons, I found myself less and less fulfilled by a rather covert approach to street photography. If a photograph leaves neither me nor the subject with a good feeling, I question how much it is truly worth.

These doubts eventually led me to take a new approach — one that shaped my latest project, Encounters in Passing. Still, there are earlier photographs that I continue to value deeply. And while I no longer wish to return to the same stealthy mode of working that produced some of them, I now see those images through the lens of what I’ve learned since — carrying a more intentional, participatory approach even into my more traditional documentary-style work.