Tag: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
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Photography for Historic Royal Palaces: Superbloom at The Tower of London
Photography for Historic Royal Palaces: Superbloom at The Tower of London To celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen, Historic Royal Palaces created Superbloom, a stunning display of flower blooms in the moat at The Tower of London. Over 20 million seeds from carefully designed seed mixes were sown in the spring, to bloom into a dramatic display…
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TRIVIAL MATTER
Making time for personal projects is always tricky – when things are busy it’s hard to find the time, and sometimes there’s just a bit of an ebb and flow in creativity. So instead of working on a specific project for a set period my approach more recently has been to have several things just…
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Photography for The Goldsmiths’ Company – Callum Partridge
In March I was really pleased to be commissioned by The Goldsmiths’ Company to photograph metalsmith Callum Partridge at work in his studio in Stroud for their long form stories platform, Goldsmiths’ Stories. You can read the full feature, Callum Partridge: “Honest. Playful. Serious” by Jonathan Foyle on the Goldsmiths’ Stories site here – it’s a fascinating feature and a wonderful insight into…
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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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Photography for The Goldsmiths’ Company – Jariet Oloyé
If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen me share how excited I was in March when I got to go on a train for the first time in a very long time. I’m very pleased that I can now share what I was travelling for (and why I was extra excited) – a really lovely…
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HOME / WORK Project: Teigh-Anne’s Workspace
Today’s blog features Teigh-Anne’s workspace as part of my Home/Work project. I visited Teigh-Anne at her wonderfully colourful home to photograph her workspace. What type of business do you run?I’m currently creating a couple of books at the moment so I’m not sure that falls under the category of a business. I’m an artist. I…
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HOME / WORK Project: Anne’s Workspace
Today’s blog features Anne’s workspace as part of my Home/Work project. I visited Anne at her lovely home earlier this month to photograph her workspace (and chat about photography!). What type of business do you run?Photography – specialising in weddings and portraits but also undertaking some corporate work. When did you start working from home? Autumn…