I graduated Kingston University 2010 with a degree in Fine Art specialising in photography and now working a full time job in London whilst carrying on with work whenever possible.
My work: Is a mixture of portrait and ‘street’ photography. I try to capture the then and now when I am working, I prefer not to work in a studio because for me it takes out the natural element of the work but also the impromptu nature of my work too. I work now predominately in digital now.
When I started off I was using film mostly for the ceremony of it rather than what could be achieved then slowly moved to digital because the work I was taking was very ‘instant ‘ I wanted to see the results there and then and if I didn’t like it I could rattle off another 30 images of the same shot and still have the ability to carry on shooting for the rest of the time I was working.
The majority of my work is taken without any prior organisation, I might get an idea and think ‘yeah lets see where that goes’ then after a while working with that idea something else crops up and I will go with the flow. The downside of this fluid nature of my work is that sometimes some work never gets finished but also work happens without having to slave over an idea for weeks on end and then having a disappointing result.
With my portrait work sometimes there is a theme, for example the ‘Exhale’ series where the photograph is taken at the point the sitter can no longer breath other times it is focusing on the individual just being themselves, for example the ‘Kingston Vale Allotment’ where the focus is on just those who tend to their allotments.
I try to stay away from work which has a heavy theme set against it as much as I can because I feel that in the end the context and theory behind the work weighs too heavy on the photographs and when it is finished the images I have taken and useless without a 1000 word extract alongside them to explain what its all about.
I try to vary the subjects of my work as much as I can, I’m all for photographers who have been shooting the same subject for 10 years but for myself I feel that when I have finished a body of work that it is finished, maybe its an attention span thing or my own attitude that once something is in all essence ‘finished’ it’s finished.
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