Tag: EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
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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…
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HOME / WORK Project: Beverley Garrod
I met Beverley Garrod of House of Garrod through the Chelmsford Breakfast Business Club and was fascinated to hear about the incredible bespoke furnishings and textile pieces she creates in her home studio in rural Essex. A truly unique space, Beverley’s showroom, workspace and family home all coexist in a converted barn where fabrics are…
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Portrait Photography: A Personal Commission
Recently my sister asked me to take some photographs at a significant time for her and her baby. It felt very special to capture this moment with her and I’m pleased to share one of my favourite images here. A brilliant Associate Professor, writer and wonderful mum, I hope the photos give a glimpse of…
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Notes on October
October was busy. I got some test shots on 120 film back from AG Photolab, there was a good balance of different jobs (some in places with good views of London), though sadly I can’t really share them just yet, which makes a photo blog challenging. I saw 2 excellent rainbows, visited the sea twice…
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Notes on recent things
It was a funny old summer. Mostly I quietly worked away on my DYCP, built this new website and applied many layers of paint to the the summerhouse we put together in the spring. We spent a wonderful week exploring Copenhagen and Stockholm, where we had the most delicious food, saw beautiful places and walked…
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Photography for The Leathersellers’ Company – Jasneet Singh
Earlier in the year I was really pleased to work with writer Fiona Thompson again to take photographs to accompany another piece she was writing for the Leathersellers’ Company. The article, ‘Building the Dream, From the Ground Up: The Journey From Kabul to UCL‘, which you can read on the Leathersellers’ site, features Civil Engineering undergraduate student…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE ENGLISH GARDEN MAGAZINE: RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2024
This week it was time for the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show and it was really lovely to photograph for The English Garden Magazine again. It’s always a day filled with plenty of buzz, discussion of which gardens will win and predictions of what trends will follow it. Oh and lots of wondering whether I recognise that person from…
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THE CUBE: A PROJECT DURING THE UAL SHORT COURSE IN PHOTOJOURNALISM
As part of my Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award from Arts Council England, I took a short course in Photojournalism at University of the Arts, London (UAL). This is the project I developed during that 3 day course. Looking down from the LCC Tower in Elephant and Castle I was intrigued by the metal box in…
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Photography for the Goethe-Institut London
In June I was really pleased to work with the Goethe-Institut London on two photographic commissions at their base in Kensington, West London. The Goethe-Institut is Germany’s cultural institute with a global reach. It promotes knowledge of the German language, fosters international cultural cooperation, and conveys a comprehensive image of contemporary Germany. It aims to strengthen intercultural dialogue and a global…