Focal Point Gallery are very pleased to be showing an exhibition of new work by Michael Collins. Collins makes photographs according to the principles of Record Pictures; the industrial tradition of matter-of-fact recording with its emphasis on impassive perspective and detailed clarity.

Photographed on a plate camera and then digitally printed to a size 122 x 152.5cm, the pictures' scale and detail emphatically utilise the possibilities of this application of photography. The prints, in their definition and realism, reveal the most scrupulous description possible. This is what Michael Collins regards as the great property of photography; the "long look" that reveals more than could be seen at the time of the exposure.

These photographs are intended as descriptions not explanations. They provide no interpretation. That is left to the individual viewer. They honour what is there ­all that is visible ­and try not to re-shape it.