For as long as I can remember, photography interested me. That my childhood plastic point-and-shoot could capture a moment, and that I could hold that moment as if it were mine, fascinated me. As a kid, my first camera was a film camera, and film was expensive and so it was rationed. I would burn through twenty-four frames and then they would be gone. Film was for holidays and special occasions, a fleeting presence, so whenever I wanted to capture a moment, I would blink my eyes and imagine that, in blinking, I could hold that moment. I would develop it somewhere in my subconscious, and there it would stay.

Through my teenage years and into my early twenties, I thought photography was for someone else, that it could not possibly be a sensible career and therefore had no value. Now that I have a sensible career, I realise how in many ways art is all there is.

For a long time after that, I would flirt with photography. I’d buy cameras, never quite take the time to understand them, and after a while they would gather dust. But it gnawed at me, this need for an excuse to explore, and eventually I started to take photography seriously; to see it as something that had value and deserved my time. Now, whenever I can, I make pictures.

My photography is generally project-based. I tend to favour series of images over single works; I often visualise my work as a book or some kind of publication. Whether it’s Wyre, exploring the Wyre Forest, or Let Them Not Sing, discovering the Elan Valley and its history, I’m always working towards a cohesive set of images that I hope say something about the world.

Publications

2025 - On Landscape - Issue 336, ‘The Wyre Forest’

Exhibitions

2025 - Birmingham LIGHT OPEN 2025 - 19 May to late June - Birmingham, UK

2025 - RBSA Photography Prize Exhibition - 27th February to 22nd March - Birmingham

2024 - Dark Peak Festival Open Call - February - Glossop