We live in difficult times. But sometimes taking the long view can help us make more sense of our present moment. I use my camera and my writing to explore the impact of time, and our impact on the environment and the world we live in.
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Half Light
At 6am on a Monday, Newcastle hovers between weekend revelry and the working week. A dawn walk to the Quayside with a Mamiya C3 and twelve frames of black and white film.
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Observation
In an age of image saturation and algorithmic image generation, what does intentional photography mean?
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Bittersweet
There’s something wistful about the end of August. As summer fades, we’re drawn to reflect—not on the year ahead, but on the season we’re leaving behind.
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Pseudo-Creativity
Why the hours we spend reading, watching and researching about photography can quietly replace the actual making of it — and what walking a Kent quarry taught me about pseudo-creativity.
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Invisible
A warm Sunday evening walk along the Thames at Purfleet, among the industrial hinterland I’ve only ever seen from the QEII Bridge, and, briefly, a place where I can’t be seen at all.
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Seeing in colour
How a summer holiday on Lefkada and a point-and-shoot Lumix brought colour, fun, and childhood nostalgia back into my photography.
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Old Vein
Images from three abandoned slate quarries in Eryri — slowly returning to the mountains.
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Insignificance
The only nuclear reactors ever built inside a national park stand on the banks of a manmade lake in Eryri. I came to photograph them. I left thinking about insignificance — theirs, and mine.
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Underwhelm
The UK’s largest solar farm covers a piece of land the size of a small English market town. So why did standing beside it feel so strangely empty?
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Ruins
I came back to Sizewell because I felt the first visit had left something unresolved. Walking the coast the following day, I found myself at the ruins of Leiston Abbey — and through the gap in its crumbling walls, the white dome of Sizewell B. Two monuments to belief, centuries apart.