How visual communication supports sustainability
Sustainability stories and the way they are told can shape trust, reputation, drive innovation, inspire whole supply chains, and can either support success or contribute to failure. Effective visual communication supports sustainability when it authentically balances aspiration with transparency, and motivation with strategy. Photography and video play a crucial role in this process by providing […]
Leaders – what’s your leadership legacy?
Leaders of businesses, organisations and public bodies are making decisions today that will impact the lives of their employees, customers, the environment and society. What will be your leadership legacy and do you have a visual communication strategy to document it? Unprecedented times It’s a phrase that I first heard following the financial turbulence of […]
Agricultural and Farming Photography
Photographing the agricultural sector Farming and the agricultural sector in the UK is often under appreciated despite the critical role it plays in the economy, food security, and environmental stewardship. Farming photography can help to highlight the importance of the agricultural sector to culture and the wellbeing of society. In recent decades we’ve come to […]
Documentary Photography Book
Download my free Making Documentary Photography book One of the great things about being a photographer is the sense of community and the other photographers who are willing to share their experience and expertise, and that is why I am offering a free book on documentary photography, called Making Documentary Photography. I’ve been telling visual […]
Industrial Photography
I state that one of my photography services is Industrial Photography but I’m often asked what that means. So, in this article, I will try explain further and provide some examples. Industrial Photography: A definition Industrial photography can be characterised as photography that captures industrious work, which is defined as someone who works hard, or […]
County Farms Project
In its report ‘Reviving County Farms’ the authors, CPRE, state that ‘County farms are smallholdings owned by local authorities and originally intended to be let out to young and first-time farmers, sometimes at below-market rents. They are a vital ‘first rung on the farming ladder’ for newcomers to a sector that has high up-front capital […]
Documentary photography project about homelessness
Documentary photography project highlighting the growing issue of homelessness In October the homeless charity, Stonepillow, allowed me access to their facilities to see the work they do and meet the people they support, their clients. This is the beginning of a year long documentary photography project about homelessness, the varying causes of homelessness and how, […]
Documentary photography assignment
Documentary Photography for FSMU Last week I travelled to Uganda with a British educational charity, Okwasa and FMSU, who currently support two schools in a rural parish in Eastern Uganda a few miles from Busembatia, and a house for former orphaned students in nearby Jinja. My role was to document the school, the students and […]
CSR Photography
Employing documentary photography to document CSR impact Despite the pressures of rising costs that are squeezing the margins of businesses, I’ve spent much of this year on CSR photography; working with businesses who want to engage their employees with corporate sustainability objectives, or CSR, or ESG, or whatever else they may call it. I’ve been […]
Thinking Photography
Great photographers are also editors – they are always thinking photography “I don’t just take photographs, I think.” Don McCullin Storytelling requires thinking photography Thinking photography is about about making considered decisions from the outset of a project so as to end up with the story you want to tell. Like all stories, documentary is […]
