Chronicling the past 10 years of work by the British photographer Johnny Green,
It has often been my dream paints a vision and draws a road which touches on the dream to realise our life's goals and to do what it is we want to do, in spite of the difficulties, the hardships and distractions, both from within and outside, that threaten the realisation of this goal and these dreams. For Green, that involves the somewhere over the rainbow search to be able to carry out the work that he is most passionate about, i.e. the uncommissioned work that is contained within these pages, against the reality of earning a living by being commissioned to do all other types of work from editorial through to PR and wedding photography. For more than 10 years, Green worked in journalism as a photographer with the following piece of grafitti, witnessed daily for three months at the very beginning of his career daubed onto a disused railway bridge in Kirkstall, Leeds,
'Neither Work Nor Pleasure' as something which always seemed pertinent, forever true. In the right field, just not quite the right bit of it. In 2010, Green left his job with the Press Association in London and is now seeking his dream with a renewed sense of vigour and is seeking it alone. It has often been my dream contains work that was exhibited in his gallery, J. Green & Son, at the end of last year and this is now its first foray onto the pages of a book. All of the work is unpublished...until now. If the now must always remain the true dream that we can and must realise, then the future is bright and sunny too.