I am a documentary-ART photographer whose practice is eclectic but centres on stories about the land and places and increasingly my self and my life. I USUALLY tell my tales through small, artisanal hand-made books.

CV

Education

  • UAL/London College of Communication Masters MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography Postgraduate course, October 2022 to December 2023. Course leads: Max Houghton, Edmund Clarke.

  • First class Honours BSc Sociology, University of Southampton UK (1976-80) – which taught me to think about people, identity, cultures and social values, looking all around a subject to truly understand it, and to be inquisitive and enquiring.

Career

35 years with BT, in many guises of marketing and communications. Amongst many other things, this taught me about word-crafting and how to write compelling copy, how to compose and tell stories, and it taught me the disciplines of business management.

exhibitions

  • MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography LCC graduate show Nov 2023: 50:70 project.

  • 'We Also Fight Windmills' show, curated and organised by Ania Ready, at the Oxford University Press, Apr-May 2024, and at Curiously (a studio and not-for-profit art space run by artist Mills Rowe, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and on to other venues and events.

  • WorkShowGrow ‘Trial and Error’ exhibition in the County Court gallery, Kennington, London.

SIGNIFICANT Photographic courses and workshops

  • 5-day course on Photo-documentary (Spéos, Paris, June 2017).

  • Continuous Professional Development photographic coaching by photo gallery owner, Francesca Genovese (2017-18).

  • Three-day intensive Visual Storytelling Workshop, with VII Photo agency (most of the VII Photo members, including Ed Kashi, Gary Knight, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Ziyah Gafic, et al, Barcelona, March 2018).

  • Distance learning course in Photojournalism with the New York Institute of Photography (awarded NYIP Certificate in Photojournalism, August 2017-May 2019)

  • Three-day Artist Bookmaking Workshop (Tamsin Green, Photofusion, March 2022).

  • Photographer Mentoring sessions (three hours each) with Sian Davey in Devon and Cheryl Newman in London (June 2022).