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A lifelong passion for photography led me into a career in motoring magazines, first as editorial staff and then almost two decades as a freelance photographer, editor and writer.

In recent years, my work has explored an ongoing fascination with the themes of identity and memory. Returning to analogue photography, exploring the use of older and even vintage cameras, and experimenting with freer, more expressive publishing forms such as zines.

‘At Any Time’

The work was created using a 1940s Kodak Six20 folding camera and out of date roll film, and was shot so the viaduct would run along the exposed film. The final digital print was produced at 100 per cent of the negative.
Just as the viaduct has been a Worcester landmark since 1868, the camera and the process of capturing images on film has become a relic of another time. I may not have been the first person to point that camera at that piece of architecture.
The piece was shown in The Artery 100 show in 2024.

Zines

‘Made Up Stories’ – 8 page zine, box of found photographs. Exploring the idea that no matter how little we know about a group of images, we quickly build our own story around them.

‘Day’ – excerpt. Test piece exploring the use of phone cameras to document the everyday, and thoughts that the images evoked.

‘A Day In A Life’ – 8 page zine. Theme from the History In The Making project.

After years spent in and around the magazine industry, exploring the culture of zines has been liberating. With no rules on style and format, and with no readership to cater for, a free reign on the content was an exciting opportunity. In my own work, I have found I’ve returned time and again to the themes of nostalgia, memory and identity.
As part of The Word Association team which ran the History In The Making project – in partnership with local artist Oliver Bliss, the Worcestershire Archive service and Worcester Cathedral and funded by Arts Council England – we found participants in workshops shared this interest and produced a varied body of work.

‘Ledbury Faces’

The Ledbury Faces project was inspired by the work of American portrait photographer, Mike Disfarmer, and was intended to help raise awareness of the plight of the Barrett Browning Institute in Ledbury amongst the local people. The building has subsequently received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Resilience Fund and is now the Ledbury Poetry House.
The original intention was to invite sitters only for the first of the five shoot days, and then allow those participants to invite friends, family and contacts along to the later dates, therefore allowing the news of the project to grow organically through word of mouth. On shoot days, the sitters were greeted on the ground floor of the building, given a brief tour and then shown up to the top floor where the cameras were set up. The setting consisted simply of two weaver’s chairs, and I consciously avoided any kind of direction, allowing the subjects to ‘arrange’ themselves for the camera.

‘Travelling By Moonlight’

Travelling by Moonlight was a collaborative project headed by artist Jeannette McCulloch, in conjunction with other local artists and residents at The Forbury Residential Home in Leominster. The project was supported by Arts Council England.
The subjects for the images were informed by conversations with the residents, exploring artefacts that served as memory triggers.
The work took the form of large scale prints and was displayed in an exhibition at the gallery space of the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford.

‘Lost… and Found’

The ‘Lost… and Found’ project was a collaboration between Deborah Alma poet and the clients of Sheppard House in Newent, Gloucestershire, creating found poetry based on conversations. To illustrate the resulting anthology, I decided to generate images of the poets’ hands – they tell their own stories of a life well lived. A test shoot showed the kind of poses that would be explored, but working with older people presented its own limitations of stamina and mobility.
The images were not only used in the poetry anthology, but were also shown as an exhibition in community spaces.

‘Cafe Salvation’

‘Salvation’ was a photography project, working with visitors to the Salvation community café near Ledbury, using a relaxed, stripped back approach. The resulting images formed an exhibition held within the space.

Auto Photography

Since 2003, I’ve photographed hundreds of cars – classic, vintage, modern, standard and modified – for a huge number of newsstand motoring titles and clients within the specialist motoring industry. If you can think of a make and model, I will have top quality images – exterior, interior, static, action, and every last detail.