Richard's Selection

Treat this as a starting point, rather than a ranking. If you've come in from a search and don't know the work at all, these are the twenty I'd put in front of you first, pulled from a dozen different collections, and I chose them myself (which is either a feature or a warning). There's no scoreboard behind it, and I'd rather say so than pretend otherwise.

What I picked for is how a photograph behaves in a room over a long stretch of time. Something that stops you dead for four seconds on a screen is a very different object from something that has to hold a wall for ten years, and the ones that last are usually quieter than people expect. Long horizontals, on the whole, sit better on the walls most houses actually have. Calm water outlasts dramatic water, nearly every time. And a single clear shape, whether that's a pool wall, a headland or a sandbar, will still be doing something for you in year eight.

The other thing I looked for is a way in, because most people who come to this work aren't really choosing a photograph, they're choosing a place they already know in their bones. They swam there as a kid, or got married on that headland, or walked the same track every morning for a decade. So if that sounds familiar, go to the collection for your own stretch of coast first.

And if you want the work I'm best known for, that's the ocean pools. If you'd rather something less expected, have a wander through the black and white instead. This page is only ever meant to be a way in, and I've very probably got the selection wrong, for you personally.