Biography
When I was 15, I received the first installment of compensation from the Government following a knife attack (my attacker had a thing against punks) and instinctively I knew what I was going to spend the money on: more lenses. When I received the rest of the money at 18 I spent it all on a set of professional cameras and lenses. From that moment onwards, photography has been the constant focus for me. It has enabled me to vocalise my other interest: politics. Studying photojournalism in the 80s enabled me to articulate my feelings, beliefs and values into a visual medium that I could communicate to others. I would take photos at all the demonstrations I went to: anti-apartheid, anti-nuclear, the miners’ strike and the picket lines at Wapping. I hoped, and still do, that my images could portray something of the way we live today, how each action has a reaction, that nothing is without cause or response.
I believe in the good of people. Wherever I have travelled, the people I have met and stayed with have been welcoming and open. Even in the most dire situations, when almost everything seems negative, I find myself photographing the positives. When I stayed with a family in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro I found that in spite of the level of violence surrounding people living there, it was outweighed by the community’s cohesion. They had, without any external help, organised football and ballet classes for the children and adults, art clubs, after-school care and had built their own library. Families supported each other and the community had a strong sense of social solidarity. This is what I wanted to photograph, not the violence and danger. When I first started taking pictures I found that the social documentary style of B&W suited my work brilliantly (things were more black & white to me then). However, as time has gone by, I have moved away from the more traditional image to something I think is more fluid and spontaneous.
I believe in the good of people. Wherever I have travelled, the people I have met and stayed with have been welcoming and open. Even in the most dire situations, when almost everything seems negative, I find myself photographing the positives. When I stayed with a family in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro I found that in spite of the level of violence surrounding people living there, it was outweighed by the community’s cohesion. They had, without any external help, organised football and ballet classes for the children and adults, art clubs, after-school care and had built their own library. Families supported each other and the community had a strong sense of social solidarity. This is what I wanted to photograph, not the violence and danger. When I first started taking pictures I found that the social documentary style of B&W suited my work brilliantly (things were more black & white to me then). However, as time has gone by, I have moved away from the more traditional image to something I think is more fluid and spontaneous.
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YouPic Interview
AOP Interview
Capturing India
Art of Art Direction
Awards
D&AD
Black Pencil for Creative Transformation and Engagement
NHS Frontline19
Graphite Pencil for Intrgrated
NHS Frontline19
D&AD
Black Pencil of the Decade for Craft
Viva La Vulva
The Drum Marketing Awards
Winner: Grand Prix
Public Service
Social Media
Healthcare and Pharma
Most Effective use of Data
FMCG
AOP Awards
Selected in Series Lifestyle
AOP Awards
Selected in Projects
TaylorWessing Portrait Award: Selected
Creative Circle Awards
Gold: Best Poster Campaign.
Gold: Best Poster Single.
D&AD
Wood Pencil 'Creativity for Good' Bodyform campaign
Le Book West Coast Connections
Winner of Advertising Print Category
TaylorWessing Portrait Award: Selected
AOP Awards
Life Single
Cannes Lion Gold.
Bodyform. Best campaign
Creative Circle
Bronze: Best Photography, Outdoor Craft campaign
Creative Review
Advertising/marketing series: This Girl Can
Advertising/marketing series: Princes Trust
Media week Awards
Gold: Best use of content: Kenco, Coffee not Gangs
Silver: Best Small Collaboration(under £250K) Kenco, Coffee not Gangs
Cannes Lion
UN Foundation for Good.
Best Integrated Health campaign
D&AD
White pencil: This Girl Can.
Creative Circle Awards
Best Press Campaign
Best Charity/Public Service Single x 2
Press Craft (campaign) Best Photography
Outdoor Craft (campaign) Best Photography
D&AD
Graphite Pencil. Integrated and Earned Media. Adidas Jump Store.
AOP Awards
Advertising single
Object single
Project
Campaign Big Awards:
Gold in Fashion category
Creative Review Photography Annual
Selected for two Personal Projects.
Kontinent Awards
Second place: Editorial/Documentary Single image.
Cannes Lions
Two Golds: Adidas JumpStore
Four Silvers: Adidas JumpStore
One Bronze: Adidas JumpStore
Selected for Creative Review Annual Review 2014.
D&AD Awards
Nominated: Earned Media Campaigns
Creative Circle Awards:
Gold of Golds.
Gold: Art Direction
Silver: Photography
New York Photography Awards:
Finalist.
Association of Photographers Awards:
Gold
Best in Category: Projects
Creative Circle Awards
Winner for Best Photography, Outdoor Craft
PDN Awards
Finalist, Personal Projects
Mobius 'Photographer of the Year 2012'
IPA Effectiveness Awards.
Gold
Best New Learning
Best Demonstration of Consumer Participation
New York Photo Awards
Best Advertising Series.
Association of Photographers
Best in Category Moving Image: Rowena
Selected for Moving Image: Kidnapped
Creative Review Photography Annual
Selected for Personal Series: Mongolia
Selected for Personal Series: Manila
International Photography Awards
Third place: Photo Book (People)
New York Photo Festival
Winner: Advertising Series
Creative Review Annual
Selected in Moving Image.
International Photography Awards
Third place in Photo Essay
Honourable Mention: Advertising Other
Honourable Mention: Advertising Product
Honourable Mention: Archecture
Honourable Mention: Fine Art
Honourable Mention: People
Honourable Mention: Moving Image
Winner in Sony World Photography Awards
Best Commercial campaign
New York Photo Festival:
Nominated (Best Advertising Photographic Single)
International Photography Awards:
Second in Professional Photo Essay
Six Honourable Mention's in Advertising
Five Honourable Mention's in Architecture
Two Honourable Mention's in Photo Essay
Two Honourable Mention's in Sport
Two Honourable Mention's in Aerial
Creative Review Photography Annual.
Selected in Editorial Series
Association of Photographers:
Nominated in:
Documentary Commission
Innovation
New York Photo Festival:
Nominated (Best Advertising Photographic Series)
Pano International Photographic Awards
3 Bronze awards.
PDN
Innovative Website winner
Black & White Spider Awards
Nominee in Architectural
New York Photo Awards:
Honorable Mention (Best Advertising Award)
Nominated (Best Advertising Photographic Series)
Nominated (Published Book)
AOP Annual Awards (Commissioned Documentary Series)
Creative Review Photography Annual: Selected
The Campaign Photo Awards
Winner Black & White Single. Financial, Corporate & Utilities
Finalist: Multi-image campaign B&W Financial, Corporate & Utilities
National Media Museum: Bursery Award.
Cannes Lion shortlisted for photography
Creative Review Photography Annual (Advertising)
Black & White Spider Awards: seven nominations including Photojournalism, & Advertising
D&AD: Yellow Pencil (Art Direction), three nominations (Photography)
Black & White Spider Awards: winner (B&W Photographer of the Year), nominated (People, Photojournalism, Sport, Portfolio)
Association of Photographers (AOP) 2007 Annual Awards: Best of Document, Silver (Document), Bronze (Project)
Annual Photography Masters Cup International Color Awards: Winner (Sport), nominated (Advertising, Architecture, People, Photojournalism)
AOP Annual Awards (Lifestyle & Portraiture Series)
AOP Annual Awards (Society Series)
D&AD: three nominations (Press Advertising (twice), Photography & Image Manipulation)
AOP Annual Awards (Personal Culture/Society Series)
AOP Annual Awards (Personal Portrait)
AOP Annual Awards (Personal Life Single)
AOP Annual Awards (Personal Life Single)
AOP Annual Awards (Comissioned Life Single)
BP Young European Artist of the Year (shortlisted)
Kobal Portrait Awards
AOP Annual Awards (Personal Life Single)
AOP Annual Awards: Silver (Personal Black & White Series), merit (Commissioned Black & White Series)
The Observer: Young Photojournalist of the Year
Exhibitions
Project Pressure Group Show
Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany
Project Pressure Group Show
New Zealand Museum, Wellington
then touring New Zealand.
Project Pressure Group Show
Project Pressure Group Show
Jakopic Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovinia.
Portrait Salon
Photo North Festival
Harrogate
Portrait Salon
Royal Photographic Society
Bristol
Distressed Communities
Curious Productions
London
Project Pressure
Group Show
Natural History Museum
Vienna
Austria
AOP Awards
Group show
Canary Wharf
London
TaylorWessing Awards
National Portrait Gallery
London
MANA 20
Group show
La Ruche Moderne
Anglet
France
AOP50
Group show
Canary Wharf
London
Lovin' It
Milton Gallery
London
TaylorWessing Awards
National Portrait Gallery
London
AOP Awards
Old Trueman Brewary
London
Group Show
Galerie D'Art Contemporain
Luxembourg
Group Show
The Lowry
Manchester
UK
NYPA group show
Powerhouse, New York
USA
Group Show
Bonnington Gallery
Nottingham. UK
Just One Word.
Buckingham Gate, London. UK
Adidas DRose Jump
Hoxton Community Center, London. UK
Shibuya
The Front View Gallery, Whitsable, UK
IPA Best in Show, Smashbox Studios
Culver City, LA, CA, USA
New York Photo Awards, NYC, USA
Foto8 Summer Show
Foto8 Gallery
London.
New York Photo Festival, NYC, USA
IPA Best in Show.
Splashlight Studio's, New York.
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Somerset House, London
Voices for the Alternative
Congress House, Trades Union Congress,
London
Photo50, London Art Fair. Selected by Joann Pitman, Photography Critic of The Times, London
Dharavi (in conjunction with C4’s ‘Real Slumdog’)
Royal Society for the Arts (London)
Foto8 Award and Summer Show
Host Gallery (London)
Foto8 Award and Summer Show
Host Gallery (London)
‘Viva Favela’ (solo show),
British Museum (London)
‘Lovin’ It’ (solo show),
Host Gallery (London)
Leica Gallery
(Solm, Germany)
Foto8 Award and Summer Show
Host Gallery (London)
HSBC (Canary Wharf, London)
‘Eight Ways to Change the World’ (group show),
Bargehouse Gallery (London)
Various shows, Association of Photographers
Gallery (London)
‘Naked: Images from the Former Soviet Union’
The Photographers Gallery (London)
The Kobal Portrait Awards
The National Portrait Gallery (London)
Images held in the Photographic Collection of The National Media Museum, Bradford, UK.
Clients
Include:
Action Aid
Adidas
Asics
Barclays Bank
Bank of America
Bodyform
British Airways
British Gas
British Petroleum
BBC
BMW
Cancer Research UK
Coca–Cola
The Daily Telegraph
Department for Transport
Dove
Esquire Magazine
FHM Magazine
FIFA
Flora
GSK
Havana Club
Home Office
HSBC
The Independent Magazine
Kenco
Lucazade
Mars
Merill Lynch
Metropolitan Police
McDonalds
Newsweek
Nike
Nissan
Nikon
The Observer
The Prince's Trust
Rolex
Royal British Legion
San Miguel
Save the Children
Shell
Shelter
Sony Ericsson
Sony Playstation
Sport England
Sure
Toyota
Vodafone
War Child
Wall's
Action Aid
Adidas
Asics
Barclays Bank
Bank of America
Bodyform
British Airways
British Gas
British Petroleum
BBC
BMW
Cancer Research UK
Coca–Cola
The Daily Telegraph
Department for Transport
Dove
Esquire Magazine
FHM Magazine
FIFA
Flora
GSK
Havana Club
Home Office
HSBC
The Independent Magazine
Kenco
Lucazade
Mars
Merill Lynch
Metropolitan Police
McDonalds
Newsweek
Nike
Nissan
Nikon
The Observer
The Prince's Trust
Rolex
Royal British Legion
San Miguel
Save the Children
Shell
Shelter
Sony Ericsson
Sony Playstation
Sport England
Sure
Toyota
Vodafone
War Child
Wall's
Books
This is not a Drill
An ExtinctionRebellion Handbook
Penguin
MS-13
Paul Belford Publishing.
Egypt's Political Graffiti
Creative Review Monographs.
Shibuya
This is Real Art Publishing.
We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal People
Quadrille Publishing Ltd.
Lovin’ It
Dewi Lewis Publishing
The World’s Greatest Black & White Photography No. 1
Book Basil Publishing Ltd
Adventures on the 24th Parallel
Last Page & Nissan
Photo—Journalism
Roto Vision
The Territories
The Clockwork Man
Portraits
Roto Vision
Cuba
The Clockwork Man
Canada's Tibet. The killing of the Innu
Survival International
Judging
Getty Prestige Grant Award.
Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013
Life through the Lens
D&AD Student Awards, UK
PANL Photography Association of the Netherlands (Chair)
Utsnitt05 Photographic Awards, Norway
D&AD Student Awards (Chair), UK
AOP Awards
Lectures & Talks
London College of Communication BA(Hons) Photography
Lecture at the University of West England MA & BA(hons) Photography
First Tuesday. Printspace. London
Antidote London
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. BA(Hons) Photography
BMB, London.
Kingston University: MA and BA Photography
Workshop for Kids Company in Southwark
University for the Arts London, Artsmart conference. Panel Discussion on Starting out in Photo-journalism
London Art Fair: Panel Discussion on NGO Photography and Social Change.
London College of Communication (MA Photo-Journalism, BA(hons) Photography, Diploma in Photography)
Arts University College Bournemouth (BA Hons Photography)
University of Westminister (MA Photo-journalism)
University of Wales. (BA Hons Documentary Photography)
American International University in London (BA Hons. Media Studies)
HOST Gallery. In the Ring. Discusion with Colin Jacobson, ex Picture editor Independent Magazine.
Workshop: McCann Erickson Manchester.
Lecture at the University of West England MA & BA(hons) Photography
First Tuesday. Printspace. London
Antidote London
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. BA(Hons) Photography
BMB, London.
Kingston University: MA and BA Photography
Workshop for Kids Company in Southwark
University for the Arts London, Artsmart conference. Panel Discussion on Starting out in Photo-journalism
London Art Fair: Panel Discussion on NGO Photography and Social Change.
London College of Communication (MA Photo-Journalism, BA(hons) Photography, Diploma in Photography)
Arts University College Bournemouth (BA Hons Photography)
University of Westminister (MA Photo-journalism)
University of Wales. (BA Hons Documentary Photography)
American International University in London (BA Hons. Media Studies)
HOST Gallery. In the Ring. Discusion with Colin Jacobson, ex Picture editor Independent Magazine.
Workshop: McCann Erickson Manchester.
Articles
L Oeil
June 2016
The Guardian
September 2015
The Independent
September 2015
La Republica
September 2015
The Mirror
September 2015
The Mail
September 2015
This Girl Can
January 2015
Renaissance Awards
April 2014
Life Force Article
March 2014
FHM - Ronnie O'Sullivan
December 2013
Image Brief
December 2013
Photo Professional Magazine
July 2013
PhotoPlus Magazine
March 2013
Creative Review Monograph
March 2013 (PDF)
Ideas Tap Interview
January 2013 (PDF)
Portable Interview
November 2012 (PDF)
Image Brief - Meet Adam Hinton
November 2012 (PDF)
Creative Review
November 2012 (PDF)
The Proust Interview
June 2012 (PDF)
Wayne Ford Blog
June 2012 (PDF)
World Photography Organisation
May 2012 (PDF)
Independant/Shibuya article
May 2012
It's Nice That
May 2012 (PDF)
FormFiftyFive Blog
January 2012 (PDF)
Creative Review
January 2012 (PDF)
World Photography Organisation
January 2012 (PDF)
Image
December 2011 (PDF)
BBC Lifeforce
October 2011 (PDF)
Digital Photographer
August 2011 (PDF)
Image
June 2011 (PDF)
Kamera
May 2011 (PDF)
Digital Photographer
May 2011 (PDF)
AG - Dharavi
Summer 2010 (PDF)
Image - Dharavi
July 2010 (PDF)
Digital Pro
August 2009 (PDF)
Image- Lovin It
February 2009 (PDF)
Creative Review - Sex Trade
November 2008 (PDF)
Hotshoe - Lovin' it
July 2008 (PDF)
AG - Lovin' it
August 2008 (PDF)
Image - Shanghai
November 2006 (PDF)
June 2016
The Guardian
September 2015
The Independent
September 2015
La Republica
September 2015
The Mirror
September 2015
The Mail
September 2015
This Girl Can
January 2015
Renaissance Awards
April 2014
Life Force Article
March 2014
FHM - Ronnie O'Sullivan
December 2013
Image Brief
December 2013
Photo Professional Magazine
July 2013
PhotoPlus Magazine
March 2013
Creative Review Monograph
March 2013 (PDF)
Ideas Tap Interview
January 2013 (PDF)
Portable Interview
November 2012 (PDF)
Image Brief - Meet Adam Hinton
November 2012 (PDF)
Creative Review
November 2012 (PDF)
The Proust Interview
June 2012 (PDF)
Wayne Ford Blog
June 2012 (PDF)
World Photography Organisation
May 2012 (PDF)
Independant/Shibuya article
May 2012
It's Nice That
May 2012 (PDF)
FormFiftyFive Blog
January 2012 (PDF)
Creative Review
January 2012 (PDF)
World Photography Organisation
January 2012 (PDF)
Image
December 2011 (PDF)
BBC Lifeforce
October 2011 (PDF)
Digital Photographer
August 2011 (PDF)
Image
June 2011 (PDF)
Kamera
May 2011 (PDF)
Digital Photographer
May 2011 (PDF)
AG - Dharavi
Summer 2010 (PDF)
Image - Dharavi
July 2010 (PDF)
Digital Pro
August 2009 (PDF)
Image- Lovin It
February 2009 (PDF)
Creative Review - Sex Trade
November 2008 (PDF)
Hotshoe - Lovin' it
July 2008 (PDF)
AG - Lovin' it
August 2008 (PDF)
Image - Shanghai
November 2006 (PDF)
