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  • Featured by Art Narratives

    Four images from my Spin Cycle project were featured by Art Narratives today. Art Narratives is a website that celebrates photographers and their stories. You can find the feature here on their tumblr site.

  • Liverpool’s Boss! Photozine

    At last I’ve started working on my first ever photozine. Putting together a little zine is a project that I’ve wanted to do for years, but I’ve never quite got around to it until now. In the zine are six images and the artist’s statement from my Liverpool’s Boss! documentary project, an ongoing project about the regeneration of Liverpool. Coming soon,…

  • The difference between photojournalism, documentary, editorial, and commercial photography

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    I used to struggle with the difference between these genres of photography, which on the surface all seem broadly the same. While it’s fair to say they are closely related, there are some subtle differences between them. Photojournalism First, photojournalism, which is primarily about recording an event, and telling a viewer what happened via a series of…

  • British Horse Society Project

    My Saturday was spent documenting the Aintree Summer Camp 2016 for The British Horse Society. This is my first assignment for the BHS, and I had a wonderful time. I’ve assembled the images from the event into a British Horse Society documentary project, and plan to build on this as I attend more events in…

  • Two views of Stocks Reservoir

    Two pictures I made of Stocks Reservoir.  I’m not really a landscape photographer, but these are interesting because they are both of the same scene, both captured from The Causeway in Gisburn Forest, but shot twenty-two years apart. The weather conditions are obviously different, as is the water level! The first photograph was made on black and white film…

  • Welcome to the Moorcock

    In my early twenties I used to regularly pass a place called the Moorcock Inn. It was on a quiet road between Waddington and Newton in the Ribble Valley, perfect for a summer evening drive out with friends in my freshly waxed car. I haven’t been that way in some time, but in July this year I fell upon the place again, and…

  • The game with the hole

    I had a great afternoon documenting an afternoon’s polo for Cheshire Polo Club last week. This is one of my favourite shots of the day – a documentary image of the farrier at work between chukkas. While I was a bit concerned about the weather, in the end it turned out to be a great afternoon and…

  • Liverpool’s Boss!

    Liverpool has changed massively since I used to work here as a computer programmer back in the mid-1990s. I remember certain areas being no-go zones, not particularly because of crime or violence (this was long after the days of the Toxteth riots), but simply because large parts of the city comprised of nothing but derelict warehouses.…