When I began my architectural education, I had more than a passing interest in photography. Needing to record the built environment and my work, I bought my first 'proper' camera; a secondhand Olympus OM10. I loved it. At university, we were introduced to the darkroom and taught to develop and print black & white film.
Nobody explained how to use my camera, though. I spent my entire degree and post-graduate diploma pressing the shutter button and hoping what I was seeing would be reflected in the prints and negatives.
Once I had qualified and started earning I bought various 'decent' digital cameras, thinking that they would magically improve my output ...
Roll on to 2018 and a good friend introduced me to the online photography course 'A Year with My Camera'. Emma Davies' course started from first principles, carefully explaining how the camera works and what all the dials mean. A year later I could confidently make a picture using manual mode.
I joined Emma's camera club soon after and have loved being involved with a bunch of photographers who are gloriously supportive of each other's endeavours. Six years on, I am still developing as a photographer, exploring, developing and refining my photography. Inevitably, my architectural training shapes the way I view and make photographs.
In the summer of 2022, I gained an LRPS distinction from the Royal Photographic Society.
A photograph I made of the Bodleian Library, Oxford was shortlisted in the RIBA Photo Festival and subsequently accessioned to the RIBA Photographs Collection in the winter of 2023.
Latterly, I've been concentrating on landscape work, with a particular emphasis on trees. Alongside, Infrared, ICM and alternative analogue processes fascinate and inspire in equal measure.