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I am a fine art photographer whose interests include social and philosophical studies of urban life, expressed within my street photography and urban projects.
Within the genre of Concrete photography I also enjoy producing abstract images using camera-less techniques that reveal ambiguous images with multiple interpretations.

Urban Photography and Research
Since joining London Independent Photographers in 2010, I have become involved in The Crossing Lines Group – Urban Edge, in association with The Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
I began a research project within the Crossing Lines group relating to the development of Poundbury in Dorset. This project focuses on the concept of Prince Charles utopian dream – the rapidly expanding Poundbury Village in Dorset. My work questions whether the utopian vision of replicating a perfect English village in the 21st century is flourishing. I see Poundbury built as a museum with its rules and codes of design. Its visual characteristics organised to emulate a quintessential British rural village. I would assume that those who choose to reside here are compliant parties to the museum’s functioning, as at least initially they accept these codes in order to settle in the area. Living within a prefabricated community, akin to stage sets I aim to question how the residents have changed or will alter the prescriptive character of the area. This project is a photographic discourse illustrating an aesthetic of identity within the geographical and lived space that is ‘Poundbury’. Captured at twilight my work contains cinematic qualities that have an eerie otherworldly aura illustrating the fantasy of a dream within the newly created buildings and spaces.

I have commenced a practice and research PhD at The Arts University College Bournemouth to develop my research in Poundbury.