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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR CREATIVES: HOUSE OF GARROD
House of Garrod was founded in 2013 by Beverley Garrod, a bespoke interior and furniture designer based in rural Essex. We first met a few years back through the Chelmsford Business Breakfast Club and I photographed her incredible home workspace in a converted barn as part of my Home/Work project a little while back. Since…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR PERFORMERS: ANNA POOL
When Anna Pool got in touch to ask if I’d be up for working with her on some portraits for her upcoming concert I immediately said yes. Having previously worked together on artwork for her band Wise Woman’s EP, I knew it’d be an opportunity to do something fun and creative. The concert Anna is…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR CHARITIES: AT THE BUS FOR THE GOLDSMITHS’ FOUNDATION
Last year I was fortunate to accompany a small team from the Goldsmiths’ Foundation on a visit to the flagship studio space of AT The Bus, one of the Goldsmiths’ Foundation’s inaugural grants programme recipients. Our visit was during a special two-day project led by Eliza Higginbottom, an artist, sculptor and jeweller who is a…
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AMASS ZINE 04: OUTDOOR SEATING
For a while I thought I’d leave Amass Zine as a trio, but I really like making them and it turns out I had another collection lurking in my camera roll… Amass Zine 04: Outdoor seating is a small foldy zine about chairs at the sides of roads. Are they abandoned old reliables? Somewhere to…
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HOME / WORK Project: WENDY BAILEY
Wendy Bailey is an associate artist at Cuckoo Farm Studios and a member of The Minories Artist Network. Wendy spent over 20 years making music radio programmes at local radio and then at the BBC Radio 2 in London as a journalist, reporter, and producer, doing interviews, features and documentaries. She has interviewed many musicians from…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARTISTS: HARVEY GROEBER
Harvey Groeber is a tattoo artist specialising in large scale black and grey work, based at Artoria Tattoos in Braintree, Essex and Debut Studios in Shoreditch, London. Harvey got in touch with me as he needed some new headshots for some upcoming announcements and social media posts. We had a quick chat over WhatsApp about…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARTISTS: JOBAN GILL AT THE MINORIES
Joban Gill is a mixed-media artist creating narrative works of art through layering images and mediums. Her work focusses on the human form but the environments she creates for them are always evolving. In September Joban’s solo exhibition ‘It’s All a Blur’ at The Minories in Colchester invited viewers into a space where memories lived…
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ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR LAWSON PLANNING PARTNERSHIP: CHARTERED TOWN PLANNERS
Earlier this year I was commissioned by Lawson Planning Partnership (LPP), a chartered town planning company based in Colchester, Essex, to create new photographs for the brand new website they were having built by Little Website Co. as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations. LPP have worked on some fascinating projects and I really enjoyed…
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HOME / WORK Project: SARA BARKER
Sara Barker is a jewellery maker who designs and makes her own jewellery and runs every aspect of her business from her home studio, in addition to being employed part-time as a lecturer at Colchester School of Art. Sara and I had a really interesting conversation about the balance of working from home, her experiences…
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Photography for The Leathersellers’ Company – Wilderness Foundation
Earlier in the year I was really pleased to be commissioned by The Leathersellers’ Company to accompany writer Ellie Broughton to the Wilderness Foundation in Essex. I was photographing to illustrate an article they were putting together that explores how the Wilderness Foundation and another charity, Dandelion Time, use nature to address adverse childhood experiences and…