About me

I am a documentary photographer based in London, in the UK. I recently completed my MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at LCC, which has seen me develop my practice and my sense of who I am as a photographer.

My photographic practice is centred on history and our relationship with the past. For me, history is alive and ever-present. So much of who we are and how we do things is rooted in things that happened many, many years ago. Cities are alive with the events that happened in them since their inception, whilst gestures, skills, attitudes and ways of thinking are carried across generations of families. We are in constant dialogue with our past; it is inescapable.

So how can we use photography to speak of the past? This question is at the root of my practice, an attempt to grasp, understand and synthesise the stories and events that have slipped beyond our reach. How can we tell the stories of people long-since dead, when so many gaps in our knowledge of them exist? What can we ever really know about the past, even of those closest to us? Whilst I am interested in individuals and their stories, it is the greater sweep of history - and its ultimately ungraspable nature - which interests me more. The story of an individual is the story of the time they live in - which forms the story of human nature.

My earlier work was based on travel and an innate curiosity about the world I live in and those with whom I share it. The act of photographing was an act of exploration, questioning and sense-making. This curiosity is still central to my practice. Each project is a journey of discovery, the output being the result of far-reaching research and synthesis. It’s an adventure; if you know what you are going to produce at the outset, then there is a question as to whether it’s worth doing at all. Ultimately, the work is about questions much more than it is about answers.

I seek to tell stories and engage the viewer at an emotional as well as cognitive level. I believe that photographs should have a beauty to them. Most of my work is in colour, a language all unto itself, but I will to use black and white if I think it’s the best way to tell a story.

Photography is a life-long love affair, a constant companion and occasional tormentor. I find it impossible to imagine a life without it.

I am a contributing member of Millennium Images and Alamy Images.

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