Tag: LONDON
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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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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 for The English Garden magazine
It was wonderful to be back with The English Garden magazine again to photograph the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. I’ve been photographing Chelsea for The English garden for a few years now and it was great to be asked back again. As always the gardens were stunning but I particularly liked all the more ‘natural’ planting – there seemed…
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Photography for Historic Royal Palaces – Preparing for Superbloom at The Tower of London
Towards the end of last year I was commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to photograph a day of workshops with teachers whose schools will be taking part in Superbloom – ‘A stunning display of flower blooms at The Tower of London celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen’. In spring, over 20 million seeds will be sown…
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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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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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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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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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Photography for Contemporary Applied Arts
I’ve worked with Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) for a long time – they were one of my first clients when I first went freelance and later I went on to help create content for their website and Instagram account and as part of the website re-design team. The website was very much to be centred around images and I have a…
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Photography for The Charles Dickens Museum
Recently I was commissioned to work with the Charles Dickens Museum to create some new promotional images and it was really lovely to be back and to work with the fantastic team again. The Charles Dickens Museum is at 48 Doughty Street, which was the London home of Charles Dickens and a wonderful museum to visit if you are able to.…