David Kearley Photography

17/06/2026

Looking Elsewhere

I took these photographs years apart. Different places. Different people. Different days. Yet when I was going through old images recently, they seemed to belong together. The first shows two men standing only a few feet apart, both looking in completely different directions. I don’t know whether

16/06/2026

The difference between cats and people is that cats don’t pretend to like you first.

13/06/2026

Things We Didn’t Know We Needed

Markets are fascinating places because they’re built around temptation rather than necessity. Nobody arrives desperately needing a candle shaped like a torso. Or a bottom. Or several bottoms arranged neatly on a display shelf. Yet there they are, attracting far more attention than a scented candle

11/06/2026

Sometimes you can learn quite a lot about someone before they walk into the frame.

I might test that theory soon.

10/06/2026

Framing London

London seems to have an odd relationship with its own history. On one street you’ll find buildings and monuments designed to project permanence. Stone columns, statues, grand entrances and enough architectural confidence to suggest they expected to be admired for several centuries. A few minutes l

08/06/2026

Cartagena.

I liked the angel because it wasn’t helping.

07/06/2026

Different Places, Same People

One of the things I enjoy about travelling with a camera is realising how similar people are, regardless of where you happen to be standing. The first photograph was taken in a market in Alicante. I noticed a man adjusting his cap, completely absorbed in the task. It lasted a second or two, but it

04/06/2026

Sharing the Same Pavement

One of the reasons I keep returning to street photography is that it occasionally reminds me how little we know about the people around us. Cities create this strange illusion that we’re all experiencing the same place at the same time. We share the same streets, the same buses, the same weather, ...

04/06/2026

What caught my attention wasn’t where they were looking.

It was the expression.

Two different generations wearing almost exactly the same one.

03/06/2026

Monochrome Moment

We stood by the airport fence for over an hour.
He was waiting for planes.
I was watching him.
I’m still not entirely sure which of us had the better time.




PlaneSpotting