Biography

I am a photographer living and working in Aberdeen, Scotland, but had spent most of my life in the Northeast of England, County Cleveland. I have been interested in photography since I was a child, have worked in various photographic based jobs for about 20 + years now, including arts worker with Photography in East Cleveland. I only graduated in 1999, from Cleveland college of Art & Design, as a mature student with a B.A. (hon's) in photography. During my time at University I had the opportunity to visit Krakow and Oswiecim in Poland, Oswiecim has the Auschwitz museum and Auschwitz-Birkenau sites. I also took a student exchange, under the Socrates-ERASMUS program, to Granada in Southern Spain and made a visit to Valencia for the extraordinary festival of "Las Fallas", which I can thoroughly recommend. 3/4/07

 

Here you will find examples of my work, most of it revolves around my personal approach to photography, my main interest is landscape but I do like to work within the other genres, always experimenting with various techniques, modes of working. taking in most formats from 35mm up to 5 x 4 including the odd toy camera. I am currently a member of two "cults" within photography, as a user of rodinal film developer and the Diana camera.

Exhibitions:
2002. Exhibition with others on the Skinningrove Bonfire, Margrove park heritage center. Designed Booklet of above exhibition.

2001. Exhibition of Landscape and Still life photography works. Hayfield Gallery, Hayfield, High Peak, Derbyshire.

1996. Plato  Exhibition of landscapes based on ideas from Plato s simile of the cave. Margrove park heritage center, Margrove Park nr Guisbrough, Cleveland.

1995. Work show with other members of RPS Contemporary group at The Royal Photographic Society, Bath and Leicester.

1994. Cleveland gallery, Middlesbrough, small show of Landscape images.

1992. Doors  photographs documenting the reuse of doors on the allotment gardens of East Cleveland. Shown at Middlesbrough Art gallery and throughout East Cleveland.

1991. LOOK  Cleveland Arts visual arts festival. Minimum clues of Expression  exhibition of portrait photographs and open studio.

1987. Photographs in group exhibition at Grays Art gallery, Hartlepool.

1986. Landscape photographs shown in Loftus library, aid from Northern Arts.

Publications:

Barcelona images appeared in the August 2007 issue of Black & White Photography magazine.

The Photographic Journal of The Royal Photographic Society. October 1995, vol 135 no 9.

Readers Digest Nov 1996, photo of beach cleanup.

Book cover for A flavour of Whitby by Chris Scott Wilson.

Workshops attended:
1996. Richard Sadler. Portrait Photography, Loftus Cleveland.
1991. Paul Hill. Photo-critique, Stockton, Cleveland.
1990. Mapping the songsigns , multi-media event, Cleveland.
1988. Irene Reddish. Manipulated photo-imagery. Loftus, Cleveland.
1987. Paul Hill & John Blakemore. The Photographers Place, Derbyshire.
1985. Fay Godwin. The winter landscape, Folkestone, Kent.

 

All work is for sale in one form or another please e-mail me for details. I am also available to run workshops in photography and darkroom techniques.