Welcome to Duncan’s Military Photography, Visual Storytelling and Recording History.
My aim is to capture and preserve moments of significance during activities which may be defining or worth remembering in future, be it sporting events, significant changes in social or company history as well as changes in rural or urban landscapes.
In a digital age most pictorial documents are captured and stored on microchips of mobile phones, harddrives and computers. They will all fail one day as SD cards, hard drives, CD-Rs and other digital storage media may not be able to be read. Computing advances at a breakneck speed and tragedy will strike when we are not able to recover our memories.
I concentrate on creating tangible records of events on paper prints and books. It may be old fashioned but viewing doesn’t require electricity and some form of display equipment. Images hanging on walls, stacked in a shoe box or presented in a book can be viewed by anybody without requiring a computer. Additionally the significance of individual impressions are not overlooked by a hurried scroll through a gallery online. Cloud services are as secure as the financial status of the tech giants. If they go bankrupt their digital storage will most certainly be at risk, too.
