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Photography for Kids in Museums – Takeover Day at the National Archives
I was really pleased to be back photographing for Kids in Museums to document their annual Takeover Day, this year documenting the children taking over The National Archives in Kew. Takeover Day is when museums, galleries, historic homes, archives and heritage sites invite young people in to take over jobs normally done by adults. It was wonderful to see how excited…
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Photography for Hens – Hen Sweatshirts raising money for the British Hen Welfare Trust
A little while ago, my friend Amy asked if I would be interested in helping with a project she was organising to raise money for the British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT). Amy was working with woman-owned small businesses to design, make and sell a series of hen sweatshirts to raise money for BHWT, and I was happy to be…
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EXHIBITION: PORTRAIT EXHIBITION AT THE CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM
In the summer I was commissioned to work with the Charles Dickens Museum to create some portraits of participants of a writing workshop they were running in the local community, as part of ‘More! Oliver Twist, Dickens and Stories of the City‘. The participants worked with members of the Education Team to create ‘Tales from the Third Age…
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Photography for Tower Bridge – Family Activities
At the beginning of the summer holidays I was commissioned by Tower Bridge to photograph families taking part in activities in the walkway between the two towers. It was a really fun session, with the families making origami boats to add to a flotilla on the glass floor, and generally capturing the joy (and trepidation!) of families…
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Online Exhibition – Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life, Analog Forever
I’m really pleased that ‘My favourite weekday coffee cup’, the photograph of the cup I smashed on my way down the stairs that I told you about recently, has been selected to be shown in Analog Forever Magazine‘s online group exhibition ‘Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life‘. I really identified with the brief, set by fine art photographer…
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A Zine about June 2021
June felt like it went by in a blur. It was a busy month! On the work side of things I photographed houses in the sweltering sun, I went 8 meters up in a cherry picker to photograph a giant installation, which I later got to see in print, spent a lovely day photographing a wonderful…
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A Zine about May 2021
Things have been busy this fortnight so I’m finally catching up with my Zine About May, even though May feels like it was a long time ago. It rained a lot, I remember thinking April showers had been postponed. I put yellow flowers in jars around the house and mistakenly called them marigolds when I…
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Photography for Contemporary Applied Arts – Ali Holloway: Commons – the rhythm of a walk
Last autumn I was commissioned by Contemporary Applied Arts gallery (CAA) to photograph textile artist Ali Hollowayat work on her pieces for her exhibition ‘Commons: the rhythm of a walk‘. Commons is inspired by the walks Ali was taking during lockdown, and takes the sounds from these walks and translates them into pattern and texture in textiles. It was…
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Notes on a photograph: A broken cup
A while ago I shared a short project I’d done, photographing the cups and mugs I use for my quite particular tea and coffee drinking habits. This photograph is a follow up to that but also probably an insight into why I photograph ‘the everyday’ quite so much: these things mean something to me but they don’t…
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Notes on equipment: Fixing the light leak in my Mamiya RB67
This is a very dull post about fixing a camera – I’m sharing it in case it helps someone else with a similar problem, but feel free to skip this if you’re not into such things! When I was at uni I borrowed a Mamiya RB67 for a project I was working on and I…