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A Winner of Portrait of Britain by the British Journal of Photography in 2023 & 2019. I have had a number of solo exhibitions including international shows with Diffusion at Ffotogallery Wales and Photo London and have been commissioned twice by Arts Council England. My recent work was featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Observer and BBC News.
I am compelled to capture the portraits of people who desire transformation, I have been there too. I seek narratives of resilience and healing and am drawn to those who build a new life. A portrait should reach beyond the surface to be poignant, there is a tender beauty in this. Photography is a poetic force to create stories, with an element of magic to reveal a person's inner landscape. I like to explore the relationship between the subject and the photographer can be an uneasy balance of power so I ask people to collaborate in how they are represented. I enjoy immersing myself in projects with digital or film cameras and believe art can provoke new thinking and be an agent for change.
"It is a terrific body of work and I'm not surprised it has been gaining attention. These images have a lot of heart and empathy, they offer detail and a real sense of actual relationships. I feel like these images are, in some sense, an account of love and are timeless in that sense. They do not judge, in fact, they celebrate in a gentle and accommodating way." LensCulture.
"Highly rated, sincere, poignant and classical." Magnum Photo
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Exhibitions
Solo Show Salford Art Gallery NHS Still I Rise 2022
Solo Show Your Own Light 2022
Solo Show, I Am 2022
Group Show Portrait of Humanity by BJP 2022
Solo Show Diffusion International Festival 2021
Solo Show NHS Digital 2020
Group Show Portrait of Britain by JCDecaux. UK 2019
Solo Show Lowry Gallery Salford 2019 NHS England
Solo Show Manchester Library - 2018 sponsored by National Transgender Charity.
Group Show Getty Gallery London 2017
Group Show Lloyds London 2017
Awards
Winner of Portrait of Britain by British Journal of Photography & Hoxton Mini Press 2023
Winner Edition365 2023.
Portrait of Humanity by British Journal of Photography and Hoxton Mini Press Shortlist 2022
Royal Photographic Society International Award Shortlist 2021
BarTur Awards shortlist 2021
AOP Emerging Talent Finalist 2020
Photo London 2020
Winner of Portrait of Britain by British Journal of Photography & Hoxton Mini Press 2019
BJP Portrait of Britain 2017 Shortlist
Top Film by Jason Lock for Waterside/ Bottom by Rob Reed
Clients Include
The Telegraph / NHS / SafeLives / The National Transgender Charity / Getty Gallery London / Lloyds London / Somerset House Photo London / Manchester Library / The Lowry Gallery / University of Salford / Salford Art Gallery