Documentary Photography / Assignments

A selection of photographs from various projects and assignments including the Haiti Earthquake aftermath, post conflict Sarajevo, Paddy’s Market in Glasgow, Sierra Leone, India, Nepal, Rwanda and many more. Scroll down to view a selection of galleries. To purchase click on the image.

Sarajevo – 20 years after war

Before and After

A selection of photographs taken to mark 20 years since the start of the war in Bosnia.

State Institutions

For the past 12 years I have been photographing and filming inside State Institutions for children throughtout Eastern Europe for a number of charities who work with local authorities to close down the institutions and provide family based solutions for the children.

Haiti

Six months after the Earthquake I was sent to Haiti to document the aftermath and the work of a Scottish Children’s Charity. The trips main purpose was to film for CNN but a few photographs were taken in between shoots.

Kosovo

Kosovo families and children living in destroyed environments after the war in Pristina and Prizren.

Paddy’s Market

As part of my MA Project I documented Paddys Market extensively from 2008, its fights for survival, portraits of the traders and customers, to its last week of trading, the funeral and the fencing off the lane marking its final closure in May 2009. You can view my short multimedia film on Paddy’s Market here >

Foula

Foula is a bleak, yet spectacular island in the Atlantic Ocean, 20 miles west of Walls in Shetland. The island is about 2.5 miles by 3.5 miles and is the seventh largest and most westerly of the Shetland Islands with a population of 31 people.

USA

A selection of travelogue photographs taken on a tour of the East Coast from Coney Island, to Manhattan to the small towns of Pennsylvannia.

Rwanda

Documents life after Genocide for those left behind – Child Headed Households – children looking after children because all the adults in the their lives are dead, and Grandparent headed households – grandparents struggling to look after grandchildren after their own children were killed in the Genocide or by AIDS.

 

Nepal

Children at risk on the street, child labourers as well as the more traditional tourism and temples scene of Kathmandu and Pokhara

India

Photographs from Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Mumbai – documenting elderly populations in city slums and in rural fishing villages in the wake of the Tsunami in 2004. Also includes photographs from Mathura – the birthplace of Lord Krishna of the Hare Krishna movement and of wildlife.

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone suffered through a gruesome, ten year civil war which ended in 2002.  I documented the stories of Sierra Leonians who were trying to rebuild their lives and feed and educate their children, in a country that is listed as one of the worlds poorest countries by the UN Development Index.  Stories and photographs ranged from Teenage mothers, to survivors of massacres, to orphans being looked in shelters as NGOs try to trace their families.