Portraits

I was delighted to be asked by Tash, the arts centre director and ‘Woman of Kirkby’ if I’d like to help them celebrate their 30th anniversary by creating thirty portraits of their staff and volunteers. More chance to practice! I took my black backdrop and set up with the lights in the auditorium. Here are […]

Buy your own Zine of this project. I haven’t posted in ages because I’ve been preparing for my second exhibition ‘Women of Kirkbymoorside’ It ran at our Methodist Chapel March 4th – 11th and included, as its focus, ‘International Women’s Day’. I wanted to both practice creating portraits but also to highlight and celebrate the

An unusual request but one I was delighted to accept. Amy was releasing some new music in the Spring and embarking on a tour and needed an image of her holding a goose. Luckily her neighbour Phil had a friendly goose that fitted the bill perfectly. It was a beautiful morning, the best of the

As part of my ongoing ‘Women of Kirkbymoorside’ project I recently photographed our town clerk, Lisa Bolland. Following on from what was an hilarious and fun shoot she proposed she bring her daughter along next time for a mother and daughter session. With Christmas coming she thought it would be lovely to give her parents

I was so delighted to have my camera with me earlier in the week when I was working as a role player at the Hull York Medical School. When I asked my fellow actor Narelle if she wanted to have her picture taken during our lunch break she showed such enthusiasm I was shocked. I’m

I was delighted when neighbour Anne agreed to have her portrait taken. I don’t know her really well and she appears quite shy but she arrived at the pre-arranged time and I must say we had a brilliant chat about all sorts of interesting topics whilst I clicked away. Anne said she didn’t like photographs

Having lived in my town for nearly a quarter of a century (gulp) I do know quite a lot of the local people. And there’s some interesting characters – as there are in every community. Thinking about who I might ask next to be a portrait volunteer I thought of James. He regularly walks past

My day job, or at least the freelance work that I do the most, is training school students to develop their public speaking skills with a charity called Speakers Trust. Over the last six months or so I’ve been part of a team of trainers running workshops across Yorkshire and a couple of nights ago,