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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…
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HOME / WORK Project: DAVID CHILVERS
David Chilvers makes videos about miniature games, which he shares on his YouTube Channel Olden Demon, a channel about rediscovering the joy in old Games Workshop products (or is it something more sinister..?) He describes his work as “literally just working on a laptop, pretty much typing out all my thoughts, occasionally standing up and doing the same…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SCOTTS OF THRAPSTON: GARDEN ROOM INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025
This year I was delighted to be approached by Scotts of Thrapston for a new commission at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Longtime exhibitors at Chelsea, they were displaying a range of luxury Timber Summerhouses and Garden Rooms in a landscaped garden setting and asked me to photograph them. It was a very rainy morning…
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HOME / WORK Project: NYE PARRY
Nye Parry is a composer and sound artist who produces creative work from his home studio. I met Nye through his wife and frequent collaborator Madi Boyd, whose home studio I also photographed. I asked Nye: When did you start working from home? I’ve always worked from home most of the time, alongside teaching work.…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE ENGLISH GARDEN MAGAZINE: RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025
It’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show week again and I was pleased to be photographing for The English Garden Magazine again this year. It’s so interesting to see what the designers and their teams conjure up each year, get inspired by the different planting combinations and learn something unexpected (I was fascinated by the innovation in the Garden of the…
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Notes on Recent Things
As spring continues I’m getting ready to photograph the RHS Chelsea Flower Show again. I’ve been photographing for The English Garden Magazine since 2017, and it’s so interesting to see how things change over the years. I’m excited to see what this year brings. I was pleased to see the latest feature on Goldsmiths’ Stories,…
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Photography for The Goldsmiths’ Company – Fred Rich
A while ago I had a lovely commission from The Goldsmiths’ Company to photograph Fred Rich, one of Britain’s most dynamic and exciting art enamellers, at work in his studio. These images can now be seen in a wonderful feature by Janice Hosegood, ‘Precious Botanicals – drawing inspiration and abstraction from the natural world‘, which you…