I'm best known for my personal approach to documentary photography, looking at different places and the states of mind of people that inhabit them.
My first two photography books were about aspects of England. Published in 2009; ‘Our kids Are Going to Hell’ is a portrait of the social interactions of youth and the police in Hackney, London. This work was nominated for the Deutsche Börse photography prize and was runner up at Photo Espania’s ‘Descubrimientos’ portfolio prize. Also that year he was selected to make the prestigious Victoria and Albert museum annual review which was a 6 month commission.
My second title, ‘God Forgotten Face’ in 2011 continued his work on aspects of everyday English society in theSouth Western town of Plymouth. This work was selected by Martin Parr as his choice in the Smithsonian magazine’s edition “The new stars of photography” in February 2012.
Both titles are also published by Trolley Books and are included in the ‘The Photobook: A History: Volume 3’, edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.
More recently 2014 has seen my third book entitled ‘III’ published. It is a more playful black and white look at the streets of America. It has been featured in the New York Times 6th floor blog, Time Magazine Lightbox and the Financial Times amongst others. 'III' was short listed at PHESP as one of the books of 2014. It was also selected byJason Fulford for Time Magazine online, as his pick of the year.
Other Recent shows in the past years include Copenhagen City Museum, Photodocs in Munich, 'Sine ur Eye' at T.J Boulting, London, the Forum für Fotografie in Cologne, Maco art fair in Mexico, the UNSEEN contemporary photo fair with the Robert Morat gallery. My new England project was shown at the 2018 Brighton Photo festival.
I have am publishing my next book on England in summer 2021, entitled 'Full English', i've been working on it since 2016
i have several other books i'll be preparing as soon as England is out.
I have a BA in Archaeology as well as an MA in photography from Westminster University, i'm still trying to find a way to use Archaeology in my work.
i currently live in France
b.Leicester UK 14/3/72
Books Published
’OurKids are going to Hell’ Trolley2009
’Copenhagen – City of Bicycles’ /with C.Vanman. New Nordic 2010
’GodForgotten Face’ Trolley 2011
“III’ Trolley 2014
Recentexhibitions
CopenhagenCity museum. Copenhagen-2010
Fotodocsfestival. Munich-2012
Forumfur Fotografie. Cologne-2013
PlymouthGuildhall. UK-2014
Honore-’ObjectMort’ Paris-2014
UNSEENart fair Amsterdam-2014
MACOart fair Mexico-2015
‘Shineur Eye’, T.J.Boulting London-2015
UNSEENRobert Morat gallery Amsterdam-2015
Selected Editorialfeatures
Timelight box
Ftweekend
TheSunday Times
TheNew York Times lens blog
Britishjournal of photography
TheIndependent
Photoeye
I’Oleilde la photography
1000words
Americanhistory x
Smithsonianonline
Other achievements
-Photographerof the V&A Museum Annual Review 2008
-2ndplace at Photo-Espana portfolio prize, 2008 and 2009
-Nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009and 2010
-Participation in the ‘Seechange’ groupproject- Czech Youth in 2012
-2books included in Parr and Badgers’ ‘History of the photobook III 2014
Education
B.A. Archaeology.University of Wales
M.A. Photographic studies .University of Westminster.