Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
06/06/2017 - HND - Final Major Project.
The problem with mental illness is that it’s invisible.
A lot of people think because it’s an illness of our brains, we can simply change our minds about it.
This project helps to visualise the invisible.
By juxtaposing a portrait photograph with an unreadable but literal waveform of each sitter’s voice, articulating their understanding of mental health issues.
This allows the viewer to look at each photograph and know that the sitter said something, but only the sitter knows what their waveform reads.
Just like when you are walking down the street.
Everyone you walk past has something going on in their minds, but you have absolutely no idea what they’re thinking.
Vogons
01/02/2020 - Promotional Photoshoot
A Charismatic trio of school friends, these guys introduced me to the Math Rock scene.
This shoot was a flip side to the gig photography I'm familiar with. Whilst still working closely with the band, this shoot was more meditated and controlled, allowing me to get more candid shots of the lads.
The Walk to Dunkirk
31/05/2017 - shooting while filming
There was something rather alchemic about shooting while filming. It had a sense of being in on the action - but during filming, several takes of the same scene are undertaken. This created a jarring juxtaposition of the unpredictability of live performance with the consideration of something rehearsed and pre-meditated.
Much like the photographing of a performance, I had to be sly and unobtrusive during the filming. I only had a short window of time where I could take my shots before my shutter would be heard and I had to move out of the frame.
There's a lot of preparation between takes and different scenes. As a result this allowed me, as the photographer to harvest a wide collection of images that document the day of filming, both behind and inside the scenes.
Astrophotography
Ongoing Project.
There aren't many things more fascinating as a clear night sky to me.
Staring up into an inky black abyss to be greeted by thousands of individual specks of light. The night sky is an ever changing canvas. The light cast from starts arrived at our planet all at different times and, in reality, the original light source may not even be there any more.
We're regularly treated to incredible celestial events, some happen like clockwork, others happen once in a life time. I'd feel it to be an injustice to not photograph these events that our extraordinary universe puts on display for us.
