Songs of Wading Birds is the site for drummer and retired lecturer Paul Allen.

The music is a collection of recordings of experimental scores and improvisations in a number of group and duo settings, primarily with Gerauschhersteller and The Typographer’s Error.

Paul remains interested in photographs as forms of knowledge, experience, and expression, and the ways in which viewers construct meaning from them.

The works collected here represent some of the self initiated projects produced over 45 years of image making and, having recently disposed of his archive, this is what remains.

Over a 20 plus year career, Paul taught the history, theory and practice of photography at a number of higher and further education institutions in the UK and abroad.

He studied documentary photography (doc phot) at Newport and visual sociology at Goldsmiths.