Cotswold Co commissioned me to photograph the manufacturing process of one of their sofa’s at the factory in Nottingham. I captured the whole process from the wood piled up and selected, to cutting the wooden frame, selecting and sewing the fabric and then finally fitting the cover and the final checks. One of my favourite types of commissions - seeing how things are made and following the whole process.
An afternoon spent with Ollie and his bee’s in Saltaire. This was my first time being so close to bee hives and it was such an intense experience, they dive bomb and circle your head to keep you away from their queen and are generally very grumpy about being disturbed - understandable. I wasn’t particularly worried until Ollie mentioned that they can in fact sting you through the outfit… luckily no stings occurred but a I did have a very enjoyable afternoon learning all about how incredible bee’s are.
Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins photographed at his incredible home in Wales. These images were taken for Penfold Press - an independent publisher and printer who works with Clive regularly. Clive lives one of the most creatively fulfilling lives I’ve come across, his dedication and drive towards his practise is very inspiring and I really enjoyed the few hours I spent with him. Clive works over multiple rooms in his house, working where the light (and warmth!) is and taking walks in his garden for some inspiration.
Lorna of The Potting Studio photographed in her Leeds based workshop. Portrait and process imagery mixed with magical window light, what a shoot!
Photographs of the private view of the Bill Brandt / Henry Moore exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield.
UTE beer - a collaboration between Studio.Build, Plaey Furniture, Refold and North Brewing Co. We spent a day in spring 2019 wandering around 4 different woodlands in Yorkshire - Meanwood, Otley, Skipton and Ilkley. All relevant places to each of the collaborators and then the navigation points were placed over the images for the artwork. Even though all the places are fairly local to each other, the landscape is so different and varied. It culminated in a beer brewed by North Brewing Co, a vinyl and cassette of sounds of the woodlands and an exhibition at Colours May Vary in Leeds with 2 metre long prints of the imagery.
Food photography for Spice & Green, an independent spice blend company based in Leeds.
The Clean Kilo, a zero waster supermarket in Digbeth, Birmingham photographed for Guardian Labs and Henkel.
