Amateur Photographer

Final Analysis

My university dissertation on Dr Hugh Welch Diamond and his use of black & white photography in the treatment of 19th-century female lunatics has not proved useful in the development of my photographic career. Rarely have I drawn on it for inspiration or thought about it in the 24 years since it was written. Then I witnessed the image of Randy

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