About me

Born in London’s East End to West Indian parents, Wayne’s passion for street photography grew in the early days with a modest bridge camera. Capturing everyday life events as they happen, and at every opportunity, he is intrigued by the creative freedom which photography brings as a creative outlet.

Wayne’s passion for photography has always’ come from people and history where his style of street photography takes inspiration from Black icons such as Gordon Parks, Moneta Sleet Jr, Charlie Phillips to Vivian Maier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mary Ellen Mark, Sabastiao Salgado and Fan Ho. His visual storytelling creative eye enables him to provide an honest, yet thought-provoking insight to the world’s dynamic surroundings and the complex struggles of daily life.

Wayne has a unique ability to observe and represent life unfolding in front of him by showing the connection between the subject he sees in their environment. His visual language has evolved from candid street photographer to that as a humanist story teller.  From the poverty stricken townships of the Western Cape South Africa, documenting the affects of social change to the movement for racial & social justice , Wayne is an advocate for those voices whose story needs to be told.

Wayne comments:

“To capture an image is to capture the very essence of life itself and of that moment in time that can never be repeated.

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