The photographer, David Winston, was born in Los Angeles and moved to the UK in 1970 and travels extensively with his camera. Like many artists before him, he has been drawn to the city of Venice as a constant source of inspiration and now divides his time between Venice and the UK and works from his darkroom in both places. He finds modern digital photography soulless, and in his work he has sought ways to work beyond the constraints of the digital process. This has led him to both look back to the earliest photographic processes, such as gum bichromate and cyanotype, but also has developed his own alternative ways of producing a photographic image using the camera only, rather than computer manipulation of images. He has exhibited in the UK, USA, France and Italy. His painterly use of the photographic medium is full of emotion and imagination, displaying the palette of a storyteller.