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For me, I think like most of us, the Queen’s passing happened pretty fast from the moment the media said she was unwell to the announcement on the 8th. Again, like a lot of people, it hit me far more than I imagined it would. Something fundamental had changed.
Read MoreI’m happy to be able to share more images from the Whizz-Kidz project that I began at the start of 2020.
Whizz-Kidz are an amazing charity whose mission is to provide wheelchairs to young people who either are without or have totally unsuitable ones
In January 2020, when life still had a certain amount of normality to it, I decided to head to the Arctic Circle with Ray Mears to learn how not to die in sub-zero temperatures.
2020? I wasn’t expecting that!
Started at Buckingham Palace and finished up foraging in the woods with Ray Mears.
Learned a lot, missed a lot, felt sad a lot and was grateful for small things.
Read MoreAt the start of 2020 I was invited to be involved in the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the charity Whizz-Kids.
Read MoreOccasionally I'm asked by clients to shoot tests to pitch for potential jobs. This time it was for a pharmaceutical company who wanted images of senior citizens trying things out for the very first time.
Earlier in the year I was commissioned by Xero to capture stories of some of their more quirky users around the UK.
Read MoreWeek 20 of lockdown/social distancing and I’ve finally got around to some of the personal projects that have been sitting on the back burner.
Read MoreHaving photographed many of my neighbours for a portrait series a few years ago I returned to them as the C19 crisis began and, with their permission and carefully following the guidelines, I asked if I could photograph them again as social distancing and then lockdown took effect on our lives.
How different life is from only a month ago. Like most of us, I find myself looking back with a sense of loss, thinking of the everyday things that made up our day to day lives. Poet, Maryalicia Post once wrote, “it is important to notice and give thanks for an ordinary day”. We haven’t had one of those for a while.
Read MoreAlways nice to be asked back! The first time I shot this group I had 18 months to prepare, this time just 4 days. Quite handy that The King’s Speech had been on the telly the week before which was a good reminder to say ‘Ma’am as in ham not Ma’am as in palm’.
Read MoreThese images are taken from a five week shoot marrying ADNOC employees with Emiratis who have achieved personal and national ambitions.
From UAE to Austria to Tokyo to Sri Lanka we photographed people and places that are part of ADNOC and the people of UAE’s story.
Read MoreIn an attempt to get organised and archive my work I came across these images taken for Royal Mail to commemorate Her Majesty’s 90th birthday.
It wast the first time that Prince George was to appear on a stamp and it was all very top secret. Having been commissioned by Royal Mail 18months previously I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone, including my wife that I had been to Buckingham Palace until after the shoot.
Read MoreHaving photographed the women of ADNOC for Emirati Women’s Day I was asked back to apply the same treatment to the men.
Read MoreMy most recent project is the ad campaign for the 2019 Special Olympics just held in Abu Dhabi where I’m chuffed to say that two of the athletes we shot won gold.
Read More‘Let’s make an entirely new site, shouldn’t take more than a few weeks’. Then you realise you’ve allowed the archiving and storage of your images to make a teenager’s bedroom look like a minimalist artwork!
Read MoreCharlie Watts once said of his time in the Rolling Stones something like “…5 years working and 20 years hanging around …”. Sometimes it seems like I have similar days.
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