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 […]
Ice Cream Economy – a photo essay
Photo essay – Part 1 The first in a series of photo essays about Bognor Regis and what I call, the Ice Cream Economy. Late last year I came across a number of reports and articles about the growing poverty in coastal towns around the UK. Some of these reports were several years old but […]
Visual Branding
How I approached a series of portraits from a visual branding perspective. Spotify states: Any artist who thinks they can build a career just on the merit of their sound would be wise to take a glance back at history. From Elvis’s hypnotic hips to the Rolling Stones’ impudent tongue logo to Madonna’s outré Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bras, […]
Photography Project – the growth of English wine
This is a short documentary photo story about a photography project focussed on a Hampshire family farm that has diversified and is now producing award-winning English Sparkling Wine – whilst still managing livestock and arable crops. The growth of English wine Earlier this year I read that grapevine plantings in England and Wales have risen […]
Writing great photography proposals
Getting photography proposals accepted requires time, effort and imagination. The worst photography proposals I’ve read are the ones that are clearly templates written with chunks of text that are cut and pasted. All too often the name of another client appears, the grammar or tense changes mid-way through, or the proposal just doesn’t make sense […]
Film Noir Photography – 6 Images Analysed
In this article, I’m going to analyse 6 film noir images. But before I do that, let me just clarify what is unique about this particular style of photography… What is Film Noir Photography? Film Noir describes a genre or style of movies that enjoyed their heyday during from the 1940s and 1950s. They were […]
