ABOUT ME
My Work
I am primarily an architecture and landscape photographer, based in Basingstoke, Hampshire - an hour from central London.
My photography is influenced by quiet, painterly approach to the world. I’m drawn to the way ordinary places can become abstract through colour, light, reflections, shadow, weather and partial views, and I often look for the image within a scene rather than simply documenting the scene itself. I am interested in obscuring as much as revealing — using layers, foregrounds, reflections and strong crops to create a sense of ambiguity and atmosphere. My work is rooted in architecture, landscape and travel, but I’m less interested in faithfully recording a place than in capturing how it feels: the fleeting moments of colour, texture, light and geometry that make a familiar landscape or building feel unexpected.
Someone described my images as being portraits of spaces which I quite like the sound of.
My Journey
I started out taking photographs on film and printing black and white in the dark room at school in the late 90’s - this was fairly short lived as my love of music took over and I ended up following that creative outlet for many years. I returned to photography when I got my first iPhone in the 00’s - having a camera in my pocket at all times was a complete game changer and I became an avid iPhone photographer (me and a billion other people).
A decade later, in 2018 , I recognised that taking photos was a daily pursuit, however, wasn’t getting the image quality I wanted. I brought a decent camera and started making this a serious hobby - this was a huge leap forward in image quality and gave me the push I needed. Since the, I have been completely obsessed with taking photos everywhere I go and have also upgraded to a professional set-up. Photography is now firmly embedded in my daily routine and is a serious part of my life.