Nam Store | Bath

Shot for the Financial Times magazine ‘How To Spend It’. Sharan Kaur owner of Nam, a small boutique shop in Bath specialising in table and homewares.

Bangkok | Skyline

A stormy Bangkok Skyline, taken in the Ekemain region during monsoon season.

Cheryl Foster | Guardian Weekend

A recent portrait commission with Chery Foster for the Guardian Weekend Magazine. Cheryl holds the all-time record appearance for the Wales women's national football team, having played 63 times. She also became the first female referee to take charge of a men’s Welsh premier league game. Pictured immediately after she’d refereed a Welsh premier league men’s game at the Deeside stadium in Connah’s Quay, Flintshire

John Spence Portrait | Guardian Weekend

My portrait of John Spence to accompany an article in the Guardian Weekend Magazine detailing John’s experience of dealing with dyslexia into adulthood.

Halen Môn Sea Salt | David Lea-Wilson

David Lea-Wilson founder of Halen Môn , the sea salt producer based in Anglese, North Wales.

British Heart Foundation | Portrait

A recent portrait for the British Heart Foundation. The portrait above is of Katie who was born with several genetic issues with her heart. We spent the day shooting in Swansea where Katie is at University studying cardiac physiology.

Guardian Weekend | Experience

A recent portrait commission for the Guardian Weekend Magazine's Experience feature. Rich Clothier is a Somerset Dairy farmer who had his extremely valuable prize winning cheddar cheeses stolen from the prestigious cheese competition at the annual Yeovil festival. You can read the full article here. The above portrait was shot in between heavy downpours with a little bit of quick cow arrangement. The below image was shot at the Wyke Farms storage facility in Bruton.

Vlogger | Lucy Powrie

My portrait of Youtube Vlogger Lucy Powrie.  Photographed at the begining of August

Guy and Brave | British Heart Foundation

Guy and his very beautiful Collie dog Brave. This portrait was shot for the British Heart Foundation Magazine 'Heart Matters'. Guy was only 29 when he was diagnosed with a heart valve problem. He was fit and active, training as an amateur boxer when he started struggling with exhaustion and heart pain. Guy has written about his experience over on the BHF website.

Foraging | Dorset | Scouting magazine

A day out  photographing two young chaps on the Dorset Coast, learning to coastal forage with Scouting Magazine. 

Portrait Commission | Sarah - Grazia Magazine

Portraits of Sarah, photographed recently for a feature in an April edition of Grazia Magazine.

The Royal Butler | Portrait Feature

An interesting morning spent photographing Grant Harold former butler and member of the Royal Household of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales based at Highgrove House. 

Anthony Horowitz | Author Portrait

My portrait of Novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz.

Alan Cumming | Portrait

My portrait of the actor Alan Cummin. Photographed last month in Cheltenham.

Ian McEwan | Author Portrait

Ian McEwan

My portrait of the English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan, photographed last month.

Magazine Portrait | Emily

This is Emily, pictured at her home in Salisbury. I photographed Emily for a magazine feature, profiling her as one of the winners of Price Harry's 'WellChild Awards', recognising the extraordinary courage of children who live with health challenges.

Aged eight Emily was diagnosed with an optical glioma – a rare type of cancerous brain tumour that grows in or around the optic nerve. The tumour and subsequent surgery means Emily has no more than the perception of light in her left eye and only ten per cent of sight in her right eye, leaving her with extreme tunnel vision. Despite the challenges Emily is a lively and incredibly positive person, a joy to meet and photograph.

 

PTSD | On Commission

I spent a morning in Bristol photographing a young military service member who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The commission required anonymous portraits of the soldier to accompany a piece in the Times looking at the failure of support for military personnel battling mental health issues.

Muslim Scouting Group | On Commisison

A selection of my photographs, shot for a wonderful photography commission from Scouting Magazine. I spent the day at Cardiff City Hall, documenting the 1st Cathay's Muslim Scouting group's 10 year anniversary celebrations. An amazing building and a fun event to document.

Professor David Nutt | On Commission

David Nutt photographed sitting under a Phrenology poster

My portraits of Professor David Nutt, current director of the Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College in London. Photographed for the FT Weekend at his home in Bristol last month.

David published a book back in 2013 called 'Drugs, Without The Hot Air', which in a funny coincidence I was half way through reading at the time I photographed him. I'd also just finished reading Johann Harri's book 'Chasing The Scream' which covers the history of the war on drugs. Both books are fascinating reads, I'd thoroughly recommend them. It's pretty much impossible to come away from reading either book and still believe in the ideas behind most of the world's drugs policy.  It's crystal clear that the 'war on drugs' was lost a long time ago and current drugs policy is entirely politically motivated, extremely toxic and causes far more harm than good.

David Nutt pictured with his two dogs Sonny and Borris.

David was wonderfully accommodating and even went as far as to let me photograph him with the Phrenology poster above his head (first portrait).  As an academic and scientist, I'm sure David would tell you that Phrenology is nothing but bunk and pseudoscience. Nonetheless he was happy to try out my idea for the sake of a good portrait. 

Hanging proudly above the fireplace in David's office was this framed illustration from the magazine 'The Week'. It graced the cover at the time of his sacking over his comments on the dangers of alcohol relative to less harmful but illegal drugs. A small but brilliant bit of humour and defiance from Proff Nutt.