The Selby complex of coal mines was the last big development in the UK coal industry. North Selby Mine was one of five which made up part the £100m Selby Coalfield Complex, which also included Wistow Mine, Stillingfleet Coal Colliery, Riccall Mine, Whitemoor Mine and Gascoigne Wood Mine. The five deep mines spanned a 20 mile radius and were linked underground.
April 20, also known as “420,” is a day popular with many marijuana smokers. They see this date as an unofficial holiday and celebrate by getting high. The term “420” originated in the 1970s with a group of California high schoolers who would regularly meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke weed.
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.
A Few years ago, I took a roadtrip to Svolvaer in the Lofoten Islands, Norway. I went with a couple of other Photographers, Phil Kneen and John Coldwell in Phil’s ‘Trusty’ camper van. I say trusty. We only broke down once…
The Shed is an odd place. I have a regular route that I ride on my bike. It’s a 20 mile loop around the nearby villages & serves, through Summer, as my morning ride. I must have ridden it maybe 50 times? I have never seen this shed before.