A commision to produce environmental portraits of the artist Dex Hannon at work in his studio. Similar to Mark Rothko and Gerhard Richter, Hannon uses music to influence his work.

The Park Hill project illustrates the redevelopment of the Park Hill estate as a metaphor for the  transformation of Sheffield from it’s blue collar, industrial roots, into recession, depression & stagnation through redevelopment, investment and rebirth as a white collar, modern and thriving city.

A commision to produce environmental portraits of the bodybuilder Lloyd ‘Lloydie’ Stewart at his gym. Lloyd was the Natural physique world bodybuilding champion 2013. He was also the owner of lloydies gym in Sheffield and is a legend in the city’s bodybuilding, boxing and gym community.

Pontefract Quarry in Yorkshire | An Artificial Landscape Fine Art Project photographed on a Hasselblad 503CW & Hasselblad SWC using Fuji 400H Film

In this Photo Essay, I have aimed to explore the profound interplay between nature and mystery, capturing the ethereal beauty of woodland landscapes shrouded in fog. The fog acts as both a veil and a canvas, blurring the boundaries between what is seen and what is imagined.

The days when we used to rely on phone boxes seems a world away now. It’s almost as if we always had a phone in our pocket or bag. Rely on them we did though. When I was at University, every public phone seemed to have it’s own permanent queue of homesick students on an evening, waiting to call home.

I don’t think that there is anywhere in the world that I feel more comfortable than in Paris. I sometimes feel as though it’s my spiritual home. From my first visit, on a school trip at the age of 14 or 15 I’ve felt an affinity with the city. More than anywhere else I’ve ever visited, I feel at home just walking the streets and taking photographs.

You can’t beat a family escape for a long weekend. It’s been a while since we’d been to London so we jumped on a train at York and a couple of hours and a small fortune later, we were at Kings Cross. We had no plan, other than the Natural History Museum, which is a given in our household. Other than that, we roamed the streets.

Once upon I time, I used to live just outside Middlesbrough, in Great Ayton.  Growing up in the countryside, Middlesbrough was my first real experience of a decent sized town.  It’s where our first ‘nights out’ were. 

Through the eyes of a load of country-grown teenagers, Middlesbrough seemed impressive. And then I spread my wings & saw the world.  

After realising that we’d never been to Cleethorpes, we decided one weekend to give it a try. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a seaside town. All the boxes were ticked: Pier, fish & chip shops, sugary junk food shops, donkeys on the beach & even a Hook a Duck stall.