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The University of Winchester

Earlier in the year I headed to The University of Winchester for my second shoot commissioned by London agency, Bell Integrated. The brief was to capture images of real students of the university as they were studying in the present day and then dressed in the clothes or a uniform based on the careers their degrees would hopefully lead to.

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AA cinemagraphs

In the autumn of 2022, I was invited to shoot alongside a commercial film crew whilst the were capturing new footage for an AA TV advert. I headed to Castleton in the Peak District to create still versions of what they shot. Whilst on the shoot, it occurred to me that these shots could be brought to life in the form of a cinemagraph.

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The 8th Earl of Leicester

Earlier this summer, Spears, the wealth management magazine commissioned me to photograph the 8th Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, his ancestral home in Norfolk. I relished working on the project as it combined two loves of mine, portrait photography and historic architecture.

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Photography during a pandemic

Way back in February this year I was commissioned to photograph a set of five images for a health and safety poster campaign. All was going well with the pre-shoot preparation and location finding, then Covid-19 put an instant brake on it all. When we entered lockdown on March 23rd. I had no idea when I could resume photography. By the time the lock down had eased in June, the locations has stopped allowing access, models couldn't work less than 2 metres from each other so the whole shoot was looking like an impossible task.

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Dismaland

Back in the summer of 2015, street artist Banksy launched Dismaland, a temporary art project set in a disused lido in Weston-super-Mare. This pop-up exhibition was "a sinister twist on Disneyland". I was lucky to be one of the first visitors of the day so managed to take these images before the crowds arrived.

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