“It’s the same for all of us. We play-act when we look in the bathroom mirror; we instantly make an adjustment to our expression and our face. Quite apart from the reversal of the left and right, nobody else ever sees us as we see ourselves above the washbasin. And this dissimilation is spontaneous and uncalculated. It’s as old as the invention of the mirror.”

Some Older Work

Roadside Flowers

Currently working on a series, which will be eventually made as a zine. Each part to be made of four polaroids.

Box Brownie Test Roll

Antiques Fair

On Saturday I went to an antiques fair in Canterbury. EJ showed me an amazing stall she discovered, crowded with old cameras and Victorian photographs. I couldn't believe my luck, plus the cutest little old man with an awesome beard owned the stall. I ended up coming away with two cameras, a 1930s art deco box brownie, an Olympus OM-1 (not pictured) and two Victorian photographs for £45. I'm currently putting a test roll of film through the box brownie so hopefully I'll be able to post some up next week.

Fred Perry

I have been using Flickr for years. I never expected to gain anything out of it, it was mainly just a way of managing my photos online. I have always updated it regularly and have mainly spent my time on there looking at the photographs of others. Recently I was contacted through Flickr by the director of an advertising agency in Nottingham who also happened to be the art director of the Fred Perry advertising campaigns. He came across my Flickr (and lucky for me) liked what he saw.

So he asked me to do the development photography for the Fred Perry Subculture Project. I had to produce 5 images for the beginning of June. So here are some of the images I made, using polaroid and my Bronica medium format camera.

You can also read some more about this on the awesome blog Priory of Zion

It's Final

Lately, I have been so busy. Finishing uni, moving to Broadstairs, finding a full-time job etc. We have only just got the internet in our flat and I have been intending to post my final polaroids on here for a while now. What could be a better time to do than on the night I find out my final marks? I'm feeling quite happy that it has come to and end and now all I have left to do is to attend my graduation ceremony.

I had almost 100 polaroids to choose from, I think I'd go back and edit them again if I could but the idea of this work is to view them as one image rather than individual images. Hence the reasoning behind me making a concertina book.

After 18 years of education I am finally free. I don't know if it has fully sunken in yet but I couldn't be happier to have finally finished uni. I sometimes think that I should never have studied photography but now I have a clearer idea of what to do with my life.

Here a few photos of my concertina book (part of my final major project)

(book photos by Rob Cursons)

The Virgin Suicides

A few outtakes from my final major project about a twelve year old girl, Bethany.