I am continually exploring presentation of stories so decided that I would shoot the K&H Timber Supplier story using different formats, colour digital, black and white medium format film and video. My initial intention was to mix it all up but quickly decided that the images fought with one another. Consequently, in addition to the colour presentation I have produced an edited sequence of black and white images of the K&H Timber Supplier story. It has a very different feel. I hope you enjoy them both.

You can scroll down and enjoy the pictures but as an alternative if you click here or on the first picture it will take you to a video presentation. Enjoy. 
Joint owners of K&H Timber Supplier brothers Ahmet and Hasan Kasim chat in their shop front on Lea Bridge Road, London.
Joiner Faik Ibik and driver Cesim Gundaz unload a van of a wood delivery.
Machinist Umer Farooq carries wood into the rear workshop to be stored.
Joiner Bayram Yilmaz works on a door lock in the front workshop.
 
Bayram cuts a piece of wood into a circular shape using a jigsaw as the customer watches.
 
Joiner Faik Ibik works on a window frame in the front workshop that looks out onto Lea Bridge Road.
 

Wearing a mask to protect against a haze of fine dust and paint spray carpenter Daniel Chrostowski prepares a door for priming by filing and sanding imperfections in the wood. Daniel is one of many local tradesmen who are frequent customers and often uses the facilities and tools in the K&H Timber workshop as he is considered to be a friend.
Machinist Umer Farooq cuts wood to size in the rear workshop.
 
A customer searches for the wood he needs as Faik planes wood in the rear workshop.
 
Donna Todd and Keith Manning chat with Cesim as they look for the right wood to make a clothes display rack for Donna's children’s clothing business.
 

 
Driver and general worker Cesim Gundaz gets into his van on Lea Bridge Road as he prepares to deliver a door and frame to a customer.
 
 
 
The narrow sawdust covered stairwell that leads from the shop to the upstairs workshops.
 
 
 
Ayhan Jeter who is considered to be the most experienced and skilled carpenter by Ahmet and Hasan carefully hand sands a door frame in the upstairs workshop.
 
 
Ayhan Jeter has worked at K&H Timber Supplier for over 25 years and still loves working with wood.

Weights are reclaimed from old wooden sash windows that are rotten beyond repair and stored for future use. They need to be paired in weight and size and used depending on size of window.
A drawer of a workbench in a workshop is covered with dried glue and resin.
 

Kashif checks wood for straightness and quality as he makes up a door frame.
 
 

Ayhan sweeps up as a mechanic from a local garage collects sawdust from under one of the saws. The sawdust is used to soak up fuel spillages in the garage. 

A local butcher collects and bags up fine sawdust for use on his butcher’s floor to soak up blood.
Kashif and ‘glassman’ Jiva Singh carry sheet glass into the workshop of K&H Timber Supplier on the corner of Lea Bridge Road from a delivery lorry.
 

Before they are finished doors and windows need to be glazed. Jiva Singh is a glass specialist who has worked at K&H Timber Supplier for over twenty years. He has his own workshop on the ground floor and calls himself the ‘glassman’. Jiva works with all types of glass which he hand cuts to size.

Reinforced glass is made up of layers of glass and plastic. The only way to cut it to shape is to score the glass and then pour a flammable liquid into the join. The liquid is then ignited to burn off the plastic in the cut.
 
Joint owners of K&H Timber Supplier, brothers Hasan and Ahmet Kasim (centre) stand with workers (left to right) Umer Farooq, Kashif Jazab, Cesim Gundaz, Faik Ibik, Jiva Singh and Daniel Chrostowski.
 
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