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Environmental Photographer based in Northern England.

22/09/2026

Photography doesn’t always need a purpose. Sometimes the purpose is simply to pause. 📷

A little casual photography from my wander around Brodsworth Hall and Gardens - . No project brief, no PhD research, no carefully planned shoot - just me, my camera, a walk and things that caught my eye.

Brodsworth has a rather fascinating connection to Charles Dickens too. Peter Thellusson’s extraordinary will tied up his fortune for future generations and led to decades of legal wrangling. The dispute is thought to have been one of the inspirations behind the seemingly endless Jarndyce v Jarndyce case in Bleak House - and the controversy surrounding the will even contributed to legislation restricting how long wealth could be left to accumulate.

But yesterday wasn’t really about making important photographs.

It was a wellness day. A walk, some fresh air, a bit of history and the freedom to photograph simply because I wanted to.

When life is busy, I think it’s worth remembering that casual photography is still photography. Not every image has to become a project, portfolio piece or piece of research. Sometimes noticing what’s around you and enjoying making the picture is reason enough. ❤️📷

19/09/2026

A day out with friends at Elvington, wandering around the Yorkshire Air Museum with my camera.

From the sheer scale of the aircraft to the shapes, symmetry and tiny mechanical details, there was something to photograph everywhere I looked.

Sometimes photography doesn’t need a bigger purpose - just going somewhere interesting, noticing things and enjoying taking photographs. 📸✈️

27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama 1929–2026 🖤

Today feels like the right time to look back at one of my favourite experiences with art.

Yayoi Kusama has long been my favourite artist - not simply because her work is instantly recognisable, but because of the way she transforms repetition, colour, pattern and space into something you don’t just look at. You experience it.

In 2025 I was incredibly fortunate to experience You, Me and the Balloons at Factory International in Manchester. Walking amongst these enormous forms was completely different from seeing Kusama’s work reproduced in books or on a screen. You suddenly became tiny within her world of dots, colour, scale and infinity.

I’m very glad I took my camera.
These are some of the photographs I made that day - my own little record of having stood inside the extraordinary world she created.
Rest in colour, dots and infinity, Yayoi Kusama. ❤️🟡⚫

06/08/2026

So as we are heading into a rare opportunity to capture something a little different, I felt it was time to put out in the world a little 🤏 safety advice if your wanting to snap the with your mobile phone

Your eyesight and indeed tech is not worth becoming dysfunctional when it can be so easily avoided! This is part of a wider project over on the app of clocks about using previous experience and knowledge to assist budding happy snappers and photographers alike in their picture taking journeys! it’s popping off on there so thought I’d drop this at least here and see how it hits a different audience ✌️

31/07/2026

Working through my back catalogue and reorganising images so this series spans a few years and the odd person may know they’ve featured …

Every eye is unique. Every person is too.
This series is a reminder that individuality can be found in the smallest details. From age and ethnicity to colour, texture and light, each portrait celebrates the beauty of difference and invites us to look beyond first impressions.

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26/07/2026

Art isn’t always made. Sometimes it’s simply noticed.

We spend so much time looking through the world that we forget to look at it.

A railway station sign became a study of geometry, negative space and colour. The ladybird simply arrived at exactly the right moment.

The best photographs are often hiding in plain sight.

24/07/2026

Proof that ‘The best camera is the one you have with you.’ — Jay Maisel.

A transient sky, an unexpected turn in the road, and a phone within reach. Sometimes the most compelling photographs arrive unannounced, asking only that we notice them before they disappear.

23/07/2026

so the private viewing of the Scott Creative Arts Foundation Emerging artist of 2026 is done It was a pleasure even if i was completely at times in overwhelm and tucked away (not hiding🫣 🤣) It was fantastic to see the amazing work and the winner of the award!

on to the next adventure in art land …

22/07/2026

Against Forgetting

What does it mean to be against forgetting?
For me, it isn’t about preserving a place exactly as it once was. Change is inevitable. Landscapes evolve, buildings disappear, communities grow, and memories fade. Instead, Against Forgetting asks what deserves to remain and how photography can and does become part of that process.

Memory rarely exists as a single image. It is built from fragments- places we’ve visited, photographs we’ve kept, maps we’ve followed, tickets we’ve saved and stories we’ve inherited. The pinboard became an important part of Against Forgetting because it reflects this process of collecting and connecting. It is both an archive and a working space: somewhere memories are preserved, revisited and continually reassembled rather than sealed away behind glass.
• The board = the archive.
• The magnets = memory is not fixed.
• The photographs = contemporary witnessing.
• The postcards and maps = inherited memory.
• The empty spaces = what has already been lost or can never be fully recovered.

The work combines my original analogue photographs with vintage postcards, historic maps and collected ephemera. Each material carries its own history, but together they create new conversations between past and present. Rather than simply documenting a location, the work physically embeds fragments of place within it, recognising that memory is rarely contained in a single photograph. It exists across objects, landscapes, archives and the stories we continue to tell.
To be against forgetting is not to resist change, but to acknowledge that places are made meaningful through the traces they leave behind. Photography becomes more than a record; it becomes an act of remembering.
I am delighted that Against Forgetting is part of the Scott Creative Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2026 and will be exhibited at Danum Gallery, Library and Museum.

Scott Creative Arts Foundation
Danum Gallery Library Museum

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