Profile
I trained first in architecture, but had fallen in love with photography when I developed my first print in the black and white darkroom at school (something between alchemy and an epiphany) – and come across the work of Henri Cartier Bresson. A short course in photojournalism got me knocking on doors and I was fortunate enough to cut my teeth shooting features for Fleet Street broadsheets and their colour magazines. Feeling a lack of any real formal training though I decided to enrol on an MA at the Royal College of Art where I was able to pin down the type of photography that really interested me: The contextual landscape, architecture and space – the built environment and the world around us. Walker Evans, the Bechers, Andreas Gursky, Joel Sternfeld, Chris Kilip and Stephen Shore became my heroes, along with 17th century Dutch painters Hendrick Avercamp and Pieter Saenredam.
I have been fortunate enough to work with some of the country’s greatest architects, some of the largest practices, and some of the smallest. Photographing architecture is a great joy – a form of photography that one can take one’s time over, working with the light, the weather and the seasons, but also those serendipitous and ephemeral moments that can bring a picture to life.
Ultimately what I seek to do is create images that transcend their own physicality; which become objects in their own right.
Exhibitions
May – June 2022
M2 at the ASC gallery. Group show in collaboration with the Artist’s Studio Company
May 2018
M2@15 – group show at APT Gallery London celebrating fifteen years of the M2 Gallery
September – December 2015
Town Hall Series – A London Typology. Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London
November 2013 – January 2014
Cathedral Series. M2 Gallery, London
May 2011
Concrete Geometries – Geometry and Social Processes. Architectural Association, London
March – May 2011
Sustainable Schools. Architecture Centre, Bristol
October – November 2010
Sustaining the Future. Courtyard Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
May – June 2010
Concrete Geometries Preview. Architectural Association, London
September 2007
Subtopian Landscapes. Fairmule House Gallery in conjunction with London Open House
September – November 2006
Mackintosh in Detail. Commission to photograph the architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh for The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Scotland’s Centre for Design, Architecture and the City
January – March 2006
Sublime. AOP Gallery, London
December 2004 – February 2005
Commonground. Artsway Gallery, Hampshire
October – November 2004
Crawford 5. Crawford Art Gallery. Cork, Ireland
March – May 2004
Mostyn Open. Oriel Mostyn Gallery,Llandudno, Wales
December 2003 – February 2004
View. Artsway Gallery, Hampshire
July – September 2003
Perfect Distraction. Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
January – March 2000
Half Remembered Landscapes. Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
June 1997
Royal College of Art Degree Show
I trained first in architecture, but had fallen in love with photography when I developed my first print in the black and white darkroom at school (something between alchemy and an epiphany) – and come across the work of Henri Cartier Bresson. A short course in photojournalism got me knocking on doors and I was fortunate enough to cut my teeth shooting features for Fleet Street broadsheets and their colour magazines. Feeling a lack of any real formal training though I decided to enrol on an MA at the Royal College of Art where I was able to pin down the type of photography that really interested me: The contextual landscape, architecture and space – the built environment and the world around us. Walker Evans, the Bechers, Andreas Gursky, Joel Sternfeld, Chris Kilip and Stephen Shore became my heroes, along with 17th century Dutch painters Hendrick Avercamp and Pieter Saenredam.
I have been fortunate enough to work with some of the country’s greatest architects, some of the largest practices, and some of the smallest. Photographing architecture is a great joy – a form of photography that one can take one’s time over, working with the light, the weather and the seasons, but also those serendipitous and ephemeral moments that can bring a picture to life.
Ultimately what I seek to do is create images that transcend their own physicality; which become objects in their own right.
Exhibitions
May – June 2022
M2 at the ASC gallery. Group show in collaboration with the Artist’s Studio Company
May 2018
M2@15 – group show at APT Gallery London celebrating fifteen years of the M2 Gallery
September – December 2015
Town Hall Series – A London Typology. Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London
November 2013 – January 2014
Cathedral Series. M2 Gallery, London
May 2011
Concrete Geometries – Geometry and Social Processes. Architectural Association, London
March – May 2011
Sustainable Schools. Architecture Centre, Bristol
October – November 2010
Sustaining the Future. Courtyard Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
May – June 2010
Concrete Geometries Preview. Architectural Association, London
September 2007
Subtopian Landscapes. Fairmule House Gallery in conjunction with London Open House
September – November 2006
Mackintosh in Detail. Commission to photograph the architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh for The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Scotland’s Centre for Design, Architecture and the City
January – March 2006
Sublime. AOP Gallery, London
December 2004 – February 2005
Commonground. Artsway Gallery, Hampshire
October – November 2004
Crawford 5. Crawford Art Gallery. Cork, Ireland
March – May 2004
Mostyn Open. Oriel Mostyn Gallery,Llandudno, Wales
December 2003 – February 2004
View. Artsway Gallery, Hampshire
July – September 2003
Perfect Distraction. Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
January – March 2000
Half Remembered Landscapes. Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
June 1997
Royal College of Art Degree Show