Amelia @ SMART // Cadogan Estates
My portraits of lovely Amelia, founder of SMART, a London based charity that supports people affected by mental illness on their path to recovery.
Finalist // Sony World Photo Awards
A lockdown personal project of mine has been selected as a finalist in the landscape category of the Sony World Photography Awards!
Alan Moore // BBC Maestro
My portraits of the great Alan Moore, whose works have included some of the most influential in comic book history, including Watchmen and V for Vendetta. photographed for BBC Maestro at the end of 2021.
Signwriter // Andrew Grundon
My ongoing series of portraits with the magazine Discover Britain. This time featuring signwriter Andrew Grundon. Andrew’s busy studio bursting with antique signs and sculptures is based in a small village on the North West side of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
Lock & Co Hatters // Discover Britain
Lock & Co Hatters, No 6 St James Street in London. Established in 1676, which makes it the oldest hat shop in the world and the oldest shop in London still in existence. I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon there photographing both the shop and it's retail manager Michael Hagon.
Hurst Point Lighthouse //
Whilst shooting at Hurst Castle on the Hampshire coast, I noticed that the nearby Hurst Point Lighthouse was being repainted with a new coat of brilliant white paint. I wandered over and asked one of the painters who was taking his lunch break if I could take a quick portrait of him. Gavin as his name turned out to be kindly obliged.
RNLI Sea Survival // Guardian
Earlier this week I spent the day with Rachel Hall from the Guardian down at the RNLI's Sea Survival training centre in Poole. The training centre is a standard 25 meter swimming pool which can be transformed into a stormy seascape complete with wind, rain and darkness at the pressing of a few buttons. The journalists in the dinghy were being given an experience of what it is like for migrants attempting the perilous crossing of the English Channel in unseaworthy boats.
Alice // Bristol
Alice - a University of Bristol student photographed for the Financial Times
Historic Conservation // English Heritage
It's rare that the most memorable part of a commission is the temperature. That's not to say that this commission at Goodrich Castle wasn't otherwise memorable, it definitely was, but this was the coldest outdoor portrait shoot I can remember in a nearly 20 year career! At points my fingers stopped responding to all brain input... David and Amanda are made of sterner stuff, they are historic conservationists whose task on this bitterly cold March day was to scale the 50 metre side walls of Goodrich Castle in Herefordshire, removing invasive vegetation and repairing damaged stone work. Covid lockdowns didn't come with many perks, but there is something very special about wandering around these historically significant sites with nobody else there. Be gone crowds.