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Learning new skills in PhotoShop: focus stacking
I set up a small studio in the living room today and shot some macro still lives to experiment with focus stacking in PhotoShop. By photographing the same object and focussing on a different part each...
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It snowed last night! I went out this morning and made this quick video to answer a question I get asked a lot- why do my photographs of snow come out too dark?
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'Safe Space' photography project with rough sleepers
I have been commissioned through Quad, Derby to run an ongoing series of photography workshops for Safe Space, at Derby City Missions, a service providing entrenched rough sleepers with a ‘safe space’...
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Here is a new video made for the Skills Circle at Coventry University where I give some advice on buying a used 35mm film camera, including smelling it first! Many of these tips I picked up when I...
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Safe Space photo workshop- list to 'Black Country Dada'
I recently took participants from my photo workshops from Safe Space project for homeless people to QUAD in Derby to visit the Brian Griffin exhibition, 'Black Country Dada'. Everyone was fascinated...
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City of Culture: Coventry's Storytellers cyanotype workshops
This month I have had the pleasure of delivering three cyanotype cameraless photography workshops at Broad Street Meeting Hall. Hosted by Ruby Nixon Photography and Foleshill Creates, working with a...
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QClub model figure photography workshop
During a recent photography workshop with QClub, I taught the young people the basics of macro photography, then using close-up filters on our DSLR cameras and a selection on model railway figures, we...
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Ageing with CP film
I recently completed editing this film, made over the past six months, consisting with interviews with men and women with Cerebral Palsy and their experiences of ageing. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad,...
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Seasons Greetings to all my readers!
Photographed on my kitchen table. Hand model is Jen.
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'Meet your Neighbour' animations have gone live
Before Christmas I was commissioned by Maison Foo theatre company to photograph some model houses for a 360 degree interactive installation as part of 'Meet Your Neighbour', a piece which lets recent...
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Format Festival
The work of many of my students is currently installed as a projection installation on Sadlergate, Derby, as part of the Format international photography festival. Groups I worked with include...
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Exhibition at Belper Arts Trail
Last weekend I installed, with the help of Derventio housing trust's assistant director Jackie Carpenter, the banner made by recently homeless participants as part of the 'Growing Lives' project. My...
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Reimagine Project
The reimagine project video has gone live. I worked with Deaf and Coda young people from the Royal School for the Deaf Derby to make a series of photographs about the architectural heritage of Derby,...
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New work from Radbourne Unit
Though QUAD Derby, I've been working with patients from Rasbourne Unit for acute mental health needs (Royal Derby Hospital) over the past year, running photographic workshops. Here are some of the...
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A Seat at our Table photography Commission
This month I have been shooting for the excellent Maison Foo theatre company, documenting their project 'A Seat at our Table'. This is a multi-sensory story installation originally commissioned in 2022...
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'A Seat at our Table' 2
Here are some portraits I shot of participants with the utensils they had made depicting various mementos and aspects of their home countries against the background of the opulent Pickford house dining...
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Seasons Greetings to all my readers!
Hope you all have a great holiday! This is the photo I took for my Christmas cards this year. For those of you who expressed an interest, there is also a back stage photo showing how I did it! I used...
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More work from Radbourne patients
I've been continuing to work with patients from Radbourne Unit for acute mental health needs (Royal Derby Hospital) - here's some work fro last week where we used strobes lighting and gels to produce...
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'Photography In Motion' Workshops
As part of the Format International Photography Festival I was asked to deliver two workshops to KidsQUAD and DigisQUAD making GIF's based on the 'Animal Locomotion' work of the victorian photographer...
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