Words for My Pictures – Musings on Photography & Art
Discover insights, stories, and reflections from Paul Foley’s fine art photography blog.
Newcastle Club Foundation Art Prize 2025
Grateful to have my photograph recognised as a semi-finalist in the Newcastle Club Foundation Art Prize 2025. This work is about intersections—of place, memory, and light—where stories of the past and present continue to meet.
night surf
A photograph usually freezes a unique moment. In some of my work, I encapsulate multiple moments - the fragments of what I see and experience - in a single frame. The result is a picture that compresses my observations into a blend of motion and emotion. With each lens opening, I strive to witness familiar places in a way that is uniquely my own.
Pedestrians - Street Photography in New York City
These pictures are part of a series I made in the 2 minutes and 26 seconds after 3.38pm on October 19, 2013. I had been walking along W53rd Street when I noticed how the sun, shining down 5th Avenue, was being bounced around by the high-rises and shop fronts.