Hard Bricks, Long Shadows, No Alibis is my ninth photographic series. It grew out of listening to music from a time when the world was recorded in black and white. Songs from the 1950s that felt stripped back, plainly spoken, and emotionally unguarded. Music made with nothing more than a guitar and an honest voice, when atmosphere carried weight, when texture mattered and when nothing could hide behind colour or excess. Music with no alibis. That feeling became a lens through which I began to relook at my everyday surroundings.

These photographs strip the world back to its bones. Light. Shadow. Surface. Weathered brick, worn timber, concrete that carries a thousand footsteps. By removing colour, the images refuse distraction and ask the viewer to slow down and look without shortcuts. What remains is structure and mood, the quiet tension between illumination and darkness. Long shadows stretch and settle, revealing form while also hinting at absence.

This series is about honesty. In black and white there are no alibis. No easy charm, no decorative escape, no place to conceal flaws or soften truths. Buildings stand as they are. Streets hold their silence. The camera does not explain or excuse. It simply observes and places responsibility back onto the art of looking.

Hard Bricks, Long Shadows, No Alibis looks at a familiar world without comfort or nostalgia. It asks the viewer to remain present, to accept what is revealed, and to resist the urge to look away or invent a softer story. In this space, there is no hiding.

I’ll be sharing this series of 24 images here on the blog, one each day at 6am. Consider this an open invitation to drop back here each morning and see where it leads.

Daily Photo – Puddle Full of Yesterdays

Hard Bricks, Long Shadows, No Alibis
Puddle Full of Yesterdays
2025
No 1 of 24