What is it that inspires me to make images and / or influences the type of images that I make?

In an attempt to answer the above question (and force me to start “blogging” seriously) I’ve started a list of the things that inspire me to get out there and make images. However – this is a list that is subject to change so, to start :-

Other Photographers: This is a long list and only likely to get longer over time:

• Don McCullin – “Photography isn’t looking. It’s feeling”
• I.C. or “Chuck” Rapaport – “Nightmares of a disaster”
• Phillip Jones-Griffiths – Magnum Link
• John Bulmer – John Bulmer Photography
• Martin Parr – Martin Parr Website
• Jane Bown – A Life In Photography
• Bill Brandt – The Bill Brandt Archive
• Chris Killip – In Flagrente
• Nick Turpin – Through A Glass Darkly
• Walker Evans – Many Are Called
• William Eggleston – The Egglestone Trust
• Gregory Crewdson – Cathedral Of The Pines
• Roger Tiley – Roger Tiley Archive
• Alec Dawson – Nobody Claps Anymore
• Alec Soth – Paris / Minisota
• Gary Winogrand – The Restless Genius Who Gave Street Photography Attitude

Music :-

• Rush
• Manic Street Preachers
• Public Service Broadcasting
• Show of Hands

Poets & Authors :-

• Idris Davies
• R.S. Thomas
• Aldous Huxley
• George Orwell
• Alan M Kent
• Roger Deakin
• Robert Macfarlane
• Phillip Marsden
• Bill Jay
• Roland Barthes
• Francis Hodgeson

Magazines and Websites :-

• The Guardian
• The Observer
• Magnum
• Lensculture
• Elementum Journal
• Black & White Photography Magazine
• British Journal Of Photography
• Eric Kim

Locations :-

• The South Wales Valleys – in particular the Taff & Rhymney Valleys
• Cornwall – Penwith and the area around Redruth & Camborne
• Edinburgh – in particular Newtongrange and North Berwick

There are many other things that influence and / or inspire my photography that have not been listed here, along with many other photographers.