Personal Work & Projects

You Caught Us At A Strange Time- Life During Lockdown

A series of portraits I took in my front yard over the three national lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. Portraits with stories and experiences from the participants.

Big Stick

Big Stick is inspired by the way young children always furnish themselves with a large stick the moment they enter a wood (and usually insist on taking it home). Whether it is something primeval and innate to defenceless humans that is ignored by 21st century adults, a reaction to other children having a stick, or simply it’s just quite fun, the work explores how much of our modern world is still ruled by our prehistoric selves.

The portraits were taken of children aged five to nine, an age when they are beginning to understand and experience basic notions of power and hierarchy among themselves and their world. They were asked to pose with their stick thinking about why they had it, how it made them feel and what it might be used for.

Halloween

Portraits taken at Halloween in the local area. I’d always thought it would be good to take portraits of all the costumes- everyone goes to so much effort and it’s all over after two hours of sugar-crazed madness! So I took the camera while out with my own kids this year

Work in progress- Primary child-carer dads

A project in it’s early stages, which is looking at men who are the majority child-carers in their families

Guy’s Cider Making

My friend Guy makes his own cider every year from apples he finds, sources and otherwise obtains from in and around South Manchester. Considering he finds them all himself, I have never seen so many apples in one place! He has built up an impressive array of devices to squeeze every last drop out of them, and I tag along most autumns to photograph him in action.