...is the name of our house. It's also the name of this web site, which first appeared in 2001.

My name is Roy Hammans and I'm primarily a photographer, but also design web sites and print publications in the UK.

For me photography is explored through a mix of digital and traditional silver-based techniques (sometimes referred to as 'analogue'). I still maintain a fully-equipped and dedicated wet darkroom alongside my digital lightroom, using film formats from 35mm to 5x4.
From traditional negatives, I make fine art prints to archival standards using fibre-based paper, often with 'alternative' processing and toning; digital work is printed using an Epson 3800 Stylus Pro printer, using fibre-based baryta paper and pigment inks. Any of my photographs are available for purchase; please contact me to enquire.

The content is all available from the menu on the left or top and is as follows:

My Photographs: contains various galleries of my own work, added to and updated fairly regularly. A selection from these appear in the scrolling bar above.

Creative Camera: contains a brief history of this formative magazine, published in the UK from 1964 until 2001, as well as a lot of material from various sources about the people involved and the content.

Photographers: contains sections on Edwin Smith & Olive Cook, Raymond Moore, Tony Ray-Jones, and others, all of whom I have a particular interest in and about whom there is little other material published on the web.

The Cambridge Darkroom: a brief history of the community-based photography organisation I helped establish in 1978, which finally fell victim to Arts Council cuts and closed down in 2004.

Ash Tray - the blog: contains short articles and references relating to photography, photographers and, well, just about anything I feel like adding. Additions are made as the mood takes me.

Other Site Links: contains links to some of the web sites that I visit regulary and which I personally feel make a useful contribution to the store of information on photography and design on the web.

Book Shop: is a link to my Amazon store, where I list books I own - or would love to own - and which reflect my interests. Buying anything on Amazon via this link gives me a few pennies to help pay for this site!

Contact Me: does what it says, and lets you send me a message about anything or everything on this site. Please use it to let me know what you think or to point me in the direction of anything you feel should be included or amended.

Sitemap: A quick way to see the structure of this warren.

Lastly, you will find links to my occasional photoblog, Ash Clippings, and to my Flickr pages. Some of the photographs on these may also be here in Photographs, but quite a few aren't. Oh and there's also my site for traditional darkroom work - real-photographs.co.uk.

Please feel free to explore and please do comment if the mood takes you. (All comments are moderated and appear after screening).
Thanks for visiting!

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