Mays zeal for imaging stretches back to the time he spent in his fathers darkroom.
I was lucky enough to have a dad who spent hours and hours with me in the darkroom, developing our own pictures and printing them.
I have a great love for photography, mostly the processes that were around when I was a kid, the films, the gaslight paper and the bromide paper and all that stuff, the smell of the chemicals
it will always be with me.
He clearly still has a hankering for the darkroom and relishes the challenge of exploring processes from a bygone era - his personal voyage of discovery.
To that end he recently commandeered the best wet plate practitioners of the present day in a bid to re-create the conditions under which Victorian photographer TR Williams would have worked.
May's latest mission involved the wet-plate collodion process and similarly antiquated darkroom techniques that brought him into contact with all sorts of horrible chemicals.