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21/10/2026

🌟📢 BIG NEWS! 📢 🌟

✨ I am super excited to share the new website for my collaborative work with writer-researcher (and friend!) Lucy Tomlinson, which is now live!

✨ Now with our own snazzy collaborative name, ‘Seen and Heard Stories’, Lucy and I have worked together on some wonderful storytelling projects over the last 2 years..from Sale at Work, through Lowry’s ‘One Lowry, Many Stories’ and right up to our most recent work ‘Culture Makers’ as part of Trafford’s ‘Our Creative Lives’ project. It’s been an absolute joy to meet these people and hear their stories (85 to date!) and Lucy and I are both so grateful to them all for them sharing their time with us.

✨ Please do take a look and read their stories, it’s so worth it:
https://seenandheardstories.com/

✨ A massive thank you to our fabulous and hugely patient designer, Jon (who also happens to be my husband) who has made this swish website to showcase our work so beautifully. Please do drop him a line if you need help with your own website..you don’t have to be married to him 😆 https://studiosmith.co.uk/

✨ I’ll be sharing the stories from our latest project ‘Culture Makers’ over the next couple of weeks, but you can also read them on the website now. I was too excited not to share the website today!

🌟 Want us to help tell the stories of the people in your organisation?
Get in touch..we’d love to help:
👉 https://seenandheardstories.com/

13/10/2026

📸 So lovely visit to the Trafford local studies archive centre in Sale library today for the opening of the ‘Our Stories, Our Legacy’ exhibition, featuring some of my photos.

✨ I was invited along to photograph a workshop funded by the National Archive at TAC (Trafford African and Caribbean Over 50s club) last month as members of the group chatted with historians about their personal lived experiences and of course took part in the crucial weekly dominoes, bingo and lunch together!

📸 Some of their stories are shared in the exhibition along with shared artefacts. The photos, stories and recordings will become part of the archive.
It was brilliant to say hello to a few of the people I photographed and always a buzz to see people viewing themselves in pictures I’ve taken and looking chuffed :)

✨ The exhibition is on for the rest of Black History month, until 31st October. Do head down and have a look.

Little bit more info here:
⇨ https://www.trafford.gov.uk/news/2026/african-and-caribbean-communities-celebrated-new-exhibition

13/10/2026

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