projects
The itches that I just have to scratch
Sometimes You Just can't stop scratching
Photography projects really aren’t my thing. They require so much time and effort, which I don’t mind if I’m honest. I just find it boring as hell to photograph the same subject for an extended time period. Some people spend years, if not a lifetime, concentrating on the same subject. Fair play to them, but I simply don’t understand why.
My photography projects are ongoing; they are not something I have to shoot every day or week, but I have to shoot them at some time to scratch the itch. When the itch comes back, I’ll shoot some more for a particular project. Which one I have no idea; I’ll just wing it and play it by ear.
I am not usually a "project photographer", but there are some themes that I just can't let go of. I keep coming back for more because it is like a bothersome itch that you can't get rid of. I have a need to take pictures of these subjects and projects. What do you do when you get an itch? You go all trying to scratch it; that’s what my projects are for. They are my back scratcher when I need one.
The projects began during my time at university and were a component of my degree. It is like telling a child not to pick a scab off a cut when you urge me to leave them alone. We all know what happens when it is picked.
Alone in my head
the sanctuary & the trap
'Alone in My Head' began during my second year of university at a time when my own mental health felt like a heavy fog. It became a therapeutic necessity, a way to externalise the internal weight I was carrying. The camera became a tool to look for my own isolation reflected back at me.
step inside my headlife in reflection
its life but in reverse
I have always hated taking traditional photos of people because of how they freeze or change the moment a camera appears. Shooting through reflective surfaces allows me to catch people completely unawares, capturing them in their most natural, undisturbed states.
through the looking glassdaylight sluggery
drama unfolding in the dirt.
Slugs, snails, and puppy dog tails. If you are of an age, you know how the old nursery rhyme goes. Loathed by gardeners everywhere, do they deserve the reputation they have? Where most people see a garden nuisance to be ignored or swept away, I found an obsessive, mesmerising world of texture and slow-motion survival.
slither on inthe cut
walking the veins of the past
'The Cut' was the original motorway that drove the Industrial Revolution. It carved through the landscape, reshaping communities and building the modern world. But long after the industry faded, the cut remained, and for me, it was the place where I felt most at home.
come with me