Category: Past work
New HQ, Yorkshire Air Ambulance
Any Yorkshire man or woman worth their salt will know two things: how to mix batter to make one of the most delicious and mandatory accompaniments to the perfect Sunday dinner and secondly who Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) are. If you aren’t from Yorkshire, then you should start your research on flat caps, whippets and…
Refugee Week drama workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The 14th-20th June 2010 is Refugee Week and I was proud to be part of the activities at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, exploring the experiences and raising awareness of asylum seekers in the UK. I was drafted in to provide event photography support for an all-day drama workshop hosted by Ice & Fire, a theatre company…
The Warehouse Project present Ian Brown festival
As boozy missiles flew overhead towards the stage, one cup of unidentified fluid detonated in our vicinity, spraying some folk just forward of us with its sticky payload. An infuriated Neanderthal spun around, incensed with rage: “WHO THE *%@# THREW THAT?” he screamed monosyllabically, looking at us each square in the eye. He then conducted…
Orb Community Arts blog goes live
After a careful period of planning and analysis, another one of my projects: the Orb Community Arts blog is now up and running, telling the world all about the great work they’ve got going on at their Knaresborough based art and music enterprise. Form just a couple of informal chats with Leon and Mark at…
Tread Softly at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Crawling on all fours through thick undergrowth to photograph a family of clay hedgehogs and then being chased by a giant snake? All in a day’s work at the ‘Tread Softly Tracks and Traces’ event at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The brief was to capture engaging photographs of young aspiring artists enjoying a day in the…
Degree show at Manchester Metropolitan University
Documenting the art, textiles and sculpture of twenty seven final year Embroidery students was never going to be an easy task. But twenty-one hours later I’d photographed of over eighty different pieces of art during a ruthlessly demanding time scale. Working fastidiously in a make-shift studio with three high-powered flash units, we had a conveyor…
