Tag: Photography portfolio
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…
Hot & cold metal workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
No one warned me that there’d be shards of white hot metal flying towards my camera lens when I was asked to photograph the ‘Hot and cold metal’ workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Not that I’m complaining though, using a few creative tricks these micro-explosions soon became an ally as the photos show. The ‘workshop’…
Open Country blog goes live
I’m really pleased to announce the launch of Open Country’s new blog which I planned, set up and am now in the process of populating with exciting stories and fresh content using copywriting and photography. Open Country are a charity based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, who have a really clear and simple mission: to help…
Bronze casting workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
I can honestly say that this is the first weekend I’ve spent in close proximity to molten metal. And by close I mean hair singeingly close – so much so I’m sure I picked up a tan at the four day Bronze Casting workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I was asked to photograph the final…
Heritage Leaflet for Yorkshire Sculpture Park
All is not what it seems in photographs of sixteen unique heritage locations dotted about Yorkshire Sculpture Park
