As this news page is brand new I am kicking off with a long update, starting at the beginning of 2014.
2014 Sony World Photography Awards
At the end of January I received a call from Ania at the World Photography Organisation, telling me I had been named as a finalist in the Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Still Life Category. It's been a long wait since then, but the awards night is fast approaching, and all will be revealed on 30th April when the winners of the categories will be announced at the awards dinner in London.
YMCA & I, exhibition begins it's national tour at the Lightbox, Woking
Last year I was fortunate enough to work with YMCA England, on a project to produce a series of portraits and interviews of 12 inspirational young people that have been supported by the YMCA. The work was first shown at RIBA Gallery, London. The exhibition begins a national tour this year, with a showing at The Lightbox in Woking,
Portrait Salon 2013
Englez, Outside the Hub at the YMCA, Slough
Having been unsuccessful with my submission to the NPG Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, I was delighted to hear that my portrait of Englez, taken for the YMCA & I exhibition, had been selected by Portrait Salon, a form of Salon des Refusés that aims to show the best of the unselected entries from the annual National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize. The initial exhibition was a simultaneous projection of the work in London, Leeds, Brighton & Edinburgh, the first ever 'printed' exhibition of Portrait salon was held at Fuse Art Space in Bradford earlier this year
Garden Stories, Hidden Labours - Exhibition at the Piggery, Tyntesfield.
A series of 12 prints from the series Garden Stories, Hidden Labours was shown in the Piggery at Tyntesfield (where the photographs were made), from November 2013 'til the end of February 2014. More info...