Really?

Would you describe Robert Burns as a quill-pennist? Or Kingsley Amis as a typist? Photography is a tool used by people to express their ideas. Lena Riefenstahl. Robert Frank. Aleksander Rodchenko. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Richard Billingham. Go on – look them up. Do you think they sat in the pub and droned on endlessly about ISO ratings and lens sharpness?

So what do you call them?

Leni was a publicist with a camera.

Robert Frank was an explorer with a camera.

Sirkka-Liisa is a documenter with a camera

If anything characterises them all, they are storytellers with cameras.

So where do I fit?

I am a child
explorer
comedian
engineer
curator
architect
parent
city-dweller
... with a camera