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2010 Review

Its been a great year since finishing my MA in Documentary Photography in January 2010. Although much of my photography and film work has been based in Glasgow and documenting regeneration, there have been a few shoots overseas in Eastern Europe and Haiti. The short soundslide below includes some of my favourite photographs from the [...]

Folding Clouds and Hoovering Hills Documentation

In the summer I was commissioned by Giant Productions to document their latest community arts project. Folding Clouds and Hoovering Hills installation was a space full of indoor objects with outdoor themes -  the shapes, sounds and smells of a space in which could be rebuilt, re-arranged and re-designed into new landscapes. The installation was [...]

London: Protest at Parliament Square – 7 years on

I first met and photographed Brian Haw back in 2003 when he was a lone protester living in a tent in Parliament Square. Several attempts had been made to remove him by the Government but he remained defiant and never moved since he first began protesting back in 2001. Since then his protest has grown [...]

Document 8 Film Festival Lecture

Wednesday 27th October 2010, 12pm – 6pm Centre for Contemporary Art, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Theme: Witness & Representation Document Festival is a grassroots organisation which raises awareness of human rights and social justice issues on a local, national and international level. The Student Forum which aims to work with institutions from across the UK [...]

United States of Advertising

Some photos taken from flicking through TV channels whilst on vacation in the USA this summer. All images were taken within a 5-minute period without any knowledge of the channels. I remember growing up with 2.5 channels (ITV was always a crap signal) and thinking it was great, then I went to Canada in the [...]

First film using Canon 5D Mark ii

Beyond Borders Masters Exhibition

I had the opening preview of my MA show with my fellow classmates from across the globe.  Was a fantastic night, well received, very busy, free beer courtesy of heineken, and a warehouse party in the wee small hours to finish the night off.  The exhibition runs throughout March. More details below: A Swedish photographer [...]

Moldova Bling

In February I spent a week on assignment in Moldova, filming and photographing in various state institutions for children throughout the country. Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south and is the the poorest country in Europe, with about a [...]