Tag: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
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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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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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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 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…
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HOME / WORK Project: MADI BOYD
Madi Boyd is an installation and ceramic artist who sculpts light and space by combining built environments with projected video and hand builds ceramic homeware and art. I met Madi through Creative Colchester events and it was fantastic to visit her spacious home studio, which is built in a former garage in her house. I…
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HOME / WORK Project: NEL MOOY
Nel Mooy is an artist who creates lino prints as well as working in her employed job in insurance from her garden office at home. I met Nel through her wife, Angela, whose ceramics studio I also photographed. It was wonderful to visit Nel’s purpose-built office/studio to see how work, home and artistic practice all…
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HOME / WORK Project: Angela Godwin
Angela Godwin is a studio ceramist who focuses on creating beautiful and interesting, functional and sculptural ceramics using life drawing, pareidolia, layering, patterns and mark making as inspiration for making and decorating her pieces. I met Angela at the Cuckoo Farm Studios ‘Presents’ Christmas show, where she is an associate artist. It was fantastic to…